Unit 5 The Value of Money（B卷·能力提升卷）-【赢在课堂】2023-2024学年新教材高中同步练测卷英语必修3（人教版）

Unit 5 The Value of Money B卷·能力提升卷 (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、BC和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A England has been the birthplace of most of the great English-language theatre written throughout history.Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have somcthing in common.They usually come from a playwright (with several famous plays. Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright.Shakespeare has a large cataloguc (of tragedics,comedics and history plays,and cach category is homc to some of the most famous plays ever written.Hamlet,Macbeth,Romeo and Juliet,Othello and Julius Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theatres around the world every year.Famous comedies include A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing.In the history category,Richard II 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 born within a few years of each other,but Shaw was a much more productive writer.Ilis most famous plays include Pygmnalion and Candida.Shaw's plays are loved so much that an entire theatre company is devoted to performing his works in Niagara-on-the-Lake 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.The writer wrote this passage to A.advise us to spend more time enjoying plays B.explain why England has so many w