Unit 5 The Value Of Money B卷 能力提升卷-【高考领航】2021-2022学年新教材高中英语必修第三册同步测试卷（人教版）

B卷 能力提升卷 (测试时间：100分钟　满分：120分) 第一部分　阅读(共两节，满分50分) 第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A England has been the birthplace of most of the great English­language plays written throughout history.Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have something in common.They usually come from a playwright (剧作家) with several famous plays. William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright.Shakespeare has a large catalogue of tragedies，comedies and history plays，and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written._Hamlet，Macbeth，Romeo_and_Juliet，Othello_and_Julius_Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theaters around the world every year.His famous comedies include A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. In the history category，Richard Ⅲ and Henry V are very famous. Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw Several hundred years after Shakespeare，English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.Wilde's plays are still popular now，and The Importance of Being Earnest is both performed and studied extremely frequently.A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works.Shaw and Wilde were both born in the 1850s，but Shaw was a much more productive writer.His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida.Shaw's plays are loved so much that a theater company is devoted to performing his work in Niagara­on­the­Lake in southern Ontario. Harold Pinter The plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an international presence.His writing was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.Pinter is especially known for his style of writing.Many of his plays such as Betrayal，The Dumb Waiter and his first play，The Room，are extremely well known. 1．What's the main purpose of the passage? A．To advise us to spend more time enjoying plays. B．To explain why England has so many wonderful plays. C．