Part Two
Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry—William Shakespeare—but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company （ASC）, which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.
The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor （with a beard）and did his share of noise-making.
The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus- and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side—don’t usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing. It is the playgoers, the ESC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night （some of them four or five nights）pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.
The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.
Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. （The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.）The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.
It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike （though they come from all over）---lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing—room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m..
6. From the first two paras , we learn that____
A. the townsfolk deny the RSC ’ s contribution to the town’s revenue
B. the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage
C. the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms
D. the townsfolk earn little from tourism
7. It can be inferred from Para 3 that____
A. the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately
B. the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers
C. the sightseers do more shopping than the playgoers
D. the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theater
8. By saying “Stratford cries poor traditionally” （Line 2-3, Paragraph 4）, the author implies that_____
A. Stratford cannot afford the expansion projects
B. Stratford has long been in financial difficulties
C. the town is not really short of money
D. the townsfolk used to be poorly paid
9. According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because____
A. ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending
B. the company is financially ill-managed
C. the behavior of the actors is not socially acceptable
D. the theatre attendance is on the rise
10. From the text we can conclude that the author_____
A. is supportive of both sides B. favors the townsfolk’s view
C. takes a detached attitude D. is sympathetic
Unit 13（2006） Part 2
重點詞匯：
1. hostile a. 含敵意的，極不友好的
2. superb a. 極好的，的；華麗的，高貴的；非常的，極度的
3. revenue n. 收入，歲入
4. subsidy n. （政府、慈善機構(gòu)等分發(fā)的）補助金；津貼，補貼；捐款，資助；撥款；（國家之間的）財政援助
5. attendance n. 出席，到場；（總稱）出席者，聽眾，觀眾；照料，護理，伺候
6. decorate v. 裝飾，打扮
7. rocket v. 上升，迅速增加
8. attractive a. 有吸引力的，誘人的
9. sandal n. 涼鞋
10. sightseer n. 觀光者，旅游者
11. flagstone n. 石板
12. playgoer n. 戲迷
13. standing-room n. （劇場、體育場等的）站席空位；站立空間
14. 重要詞組live off 住在……以外；靠……生活；靠……供養(yǎng)；以……為主食on the side 秘密地，暗地里；作為兼職；作為副業(yè)on the safe side 可靠的；安全的along with 與……一起；共同；連同；隨著；加之
15. bring in 引進；引入；生產(chǎn)；產(chǎn)出；收益；進款；掙得（錢）；提出（議案）；拘捕；逮捕；讓某人參與計劃
16. take in 讓……進入；接納；接受；接待；收留；把……領(lǐng)入；包括；涉及；參觀；游覽；觀看（戲劇、電影等）縮短；改小衣服；收縮；兼并；獲得（土地）；訂閱（報刊、雜志等）；收入；進賬；開始；注意到；敏銳地觀察到；馬上看到；看出；一目了然；領(lǐng)會；理解
17. get out of 從……出來；從……取出來；從……解脫/離開；從……獲得/得到；戒掉；使擺脫（某事/某習慣）；使避免；（使某人）逃避（責任、義務、職責等）
18. stay low 保持低速；保持低價位
19. drive away sb. 開車送走（某人）；驅(qū)散（某人）；趕走（某人）
20. drive away at 拼命干，努力做工作；孜孜不倦地干
21. game n. 游戲， 運動；娛樂活動；獵物（本文意義），獵獲物；野味
試題解析：
6.【正確答案】［A］the townsfolk deny the RSC’s contribution to the town’s revenue.
【測試要點】這是一道細節(jié)判斷題。
【試題解析】通過文章第二段的第一句話The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue.可知答案。
7.【正確答案】［B］the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers.
【測試要點】這是一道事實推斷題。
【試題解析】從第三段可看出，游客買了東西，在夜晚來臨前就走人，但是看戲的人們要在這里呆好多天，意思是花的錢比游客多。由此可推斷，［B］為正確選項。
8．【正確答案】［C］the town is not really short of money.
【測試要點】這是一道句意推斷題。
【試題解析】通過上下文很容易知道cries poor是裝窮的意思，和中文的哭窮很類似，不過還是不要通過字面意思猜，通過上下文最有把握，最踏實。
9．【正確答案】［D］the theatre attendance is on the rise.
【測試要點】這是一道細節(jié)推斷題。
【試題解析】原文倒數(shù)第二自然段說得很清楚：The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they'll do better. 這說明對于鎮(zhèn)上的人來說，他們實際上不知道票價低的，所以［A］不選。他們看到的只是表面現(xiàn)象［D］。
10.【正確答案】［D］is sympathetic.
【測試要點】這是一道作者態(tài)度判斷題。
【試題解析】從最后一段段首，和后面的句子看出作者認為不可能上調(diào)價格，這是很可恥的，可是鎮(zhèn)上的人們又不理解。所以實際上同情它的遭遇。
全文翻譯：
如我們所知，埃文河畔斯特拉特福德只有一種產(chǎn)業(yè)——威廉?莎士比亞,但是，它有兩個各自明確獨立而相互間敵意不斷增長的分支，這就是英國皇家莎士比亞劇團——它在埃文河畔的莎士比亞紀念劇院上演富麗堂皇的莎劇——和在很大程度上依靠到鎮(zhèn)上來不是為了看戲，而是來參觀Anne Hathaway別墅、莎士比亞的出生地以及其他景觀的旅游者的市鎮(zhèn)居民們。
斯特拉特福德尊敬的居民認為劇院沒有對他們的收入增加一文錢，他們坦率地不喜歡皇家莎士比亞劇團的演員，這些人留著長發(fā)、蓄著胡須、趿拉著拖鞋，而且很吵鬧。想到為他們掙來營生的莎士比亞本人也是演員（也留著胡子）、也參與制造噪音，這的確既有趣，也很有諷刺意味。
旅客流并非是完全分開的，那些乘坐大巴而來的游客——常常還額外參觀Warwick 城堡和 Blenheim宮——通常不看戲，有些人在斯特拉特福德看到劇院還感到吃驚。然而，來看戲者除了看戲外還要想方設(shè)法安排一些觀光活動。皇家莎士比亞劇團聲稱，正是這些愛看戲者在此過夜（有些人呆四五個晚上），把錢花在了鎮(zhèn)上的旅館飯店，為鎮(zhèn)子帶來了大部分的收入；而觀光客什么都看，夜幕降臨就離開。
鎮(zhèn)上的人們不這樣認為，地方鎮(zhèn)議會并沒有直接給皇家莎士比亞劇團提供津貼。斯特拉特福德一直善于哭窮，然而，鎮(zhèn)上的旅館幾乎每家都添加了新的側(cè)樓或雞尾酒會廳。希爾頓正在這里修建自己的旅館，你可以肯定，它會有裝飾考究的哈姆雷特漢堡吧、李爾王雅座、班柯宴會廳等等，而且價格會非常昂貴。
總之，鎮(zhèn)上人還是不明白為什么皇家莎士比亞劇團需要津貼。（該劇院連續(xù)三年打破上座紀錄，去年，劇院中1431個座位的全年上座率94%，今年會更高。）當然，原因是成本竄升，而票價仍然保持很低。
如果票價上升太高，那就是一種不幸了，這是因為這樣做就會趕走年輕的人，而他們是斯特拉特福德最有吸引力的客戶。他們到此完全是為了看戲，而不是觀光。他們看上去幾乎長相相似（他們來自世界各地）——消瘦、棱角分明、面部表情專注，穿著牛仔褲，趿拉著拖鞋，吃著面包，晚上露宿在劇院外的石板上，等著購買售票處早上10：30開始銷售的為露宿者提供的20個座位和80個站票。大綱詞和超綱詞
Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry—William Shakespeare—but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company （ASC）, which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.
The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor （with a beard）and did his share of noise-making.
The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus- and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side—don’t usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing. It is the playgoers, the ESC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night （some of them four or five nights）pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.
The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.
Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. （The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.）The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.
It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike （though they come from all over）---lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing—room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m..
6. From the first two paras , we learn that____
A. the townsfolk deny the RSC ’ s contribution to the town’s revenue
B. the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage
C. the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms
D. the townsfolk earn little from tourism
7. It can be inferred from Para 3 that____
A. the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately
B. the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers
C. the sightseers do more shopping than the playgoers
D. the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theater
8. By saying “Stratford cries poor traditionally” （Line 2-3, Paragraph 4）, the author implies that_____
A. Stratford cannot afford the expansion projects
B. Stratford has long been in financial difficulties
C. the town is not really short of money
D. the townsfolk used to be poorly paid
9. According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because____
A. ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending
B. the company is financially ill-managed
C. the behavior of the actors is not socially acceptable
D. the theatre attendance is on the rise
10. From the text we can conclude that the author_____
A. is supportive of both sides B. favors the townsfolk’s view
C. takes a detached attitude D. is sympathetic
Unit 13（2006） Part 2
重點詞匯：
1. hostile a. 含敵意的，極不友好的
2. superb a. 極好的，的；華麗的，高貴的；非常的，極度的
3. revenue n. 收入，歲入
4. subsidy n. （政府、慈善機構(gòu)等分發(fā)的）補助金；津貼，補貼；捐款，資助；撥款；（國家之間的）財政援助
5. attendance n. 出席，到場；（總稱）出席者，聽眾，觀眾；照料，護理，伺候
6. decorate v. 裝飾，打扮
7. rocket v. 上升，迅速增加
8. attractive a. 有吸引力的，誘人的
9. sandal n. 涼鞋
10. sightseer n. 觀光者，旅游者
11. flagstone n. 石板
12. playgoer n. 戲迷
13. standing-room n. （劇場、體育場等的）站席空位；站立空間
14. 重要詞組live off 住在……以外；靠……生活；靠……供養(yǎng)；以……為主食on the side 秘密地，暗地里；作為兼職；作為副業(yè)on the safe side 可靠的；安全的along with 與……一起；共同；連同；隨著；加之
15. bring in 引進；引入；生產(chǎn)；產(chǎn)出；收益；進款；掙得（錢）；提出（議案）；拘捕；逮捕；讓某人參與計劃
16. take in 讓……進入；接納；接受；接待；收留；把……領(lǐng)入；包括；涉及；參觀；游覽；觀看（戲劇、電影等）縮短；改小衣服；收縮；兼并；獲得（土地）；訂閱（報刊、雜志等）；收入；進賬；開始；注意到；敏銳地觀察到；馬上看到；看出；一目了然；領(lǐng)會；理解
17. get out of 從……出來；從……取出來；從……解脫/離開；從……獲得/得到；戒掉；使擺脫（某事/某習慣）；使避免；（使某人）逃避（責任、義務、職責等）
18. stay low 保持低速；保持低價位
19. drive away sb. 開車送走（某人）；驅(qū)散（某人）；趕走（某人）
20. drive away at 拼命干，努力做工作；孜孜不倦地干
21. game n. 游戲， 運動；娛樂活動；獵物（本文意義），獵獲物；野味
試題解析：
6.【正確答案】［A］the townsfolk deny the RSC’s contribution to the town’s revenue.
【測試要點】這是一道細節(jié)判斷題。
【試題解析】通過文章第二段的第一句話The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue.可知答案。
7.【正確答案】［B］the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers.
【測試要點】這是一道事實推斷題。
【試題解析】從第三段可看出，游客買了東西，在夜晚來臨前就走人，但是看戲的人們要在這里呆好多天，意思是花的錢比游客多。由此可推斷，［B］為正確選項。
8．【正確答案】［C］the town is not really short of money.
【測試要點】這是一道句意推斷題。
【試題解析】通過上下文很容易知道cries poor是裝窮的意思，和中文的哭窮很類似，不過還是不要通過字面意思猜，通過上下文最有把握，最踏實。
9．【正確答案】［D］the theatre attendance is on the rise.
【測試要點】這是一道細節(jié)推斷題。
【試題解析】原文倒數(shù)第二自然段說得很清楚：The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they'll do better. 這說明對于鎮(zhèn)上的人來說，他們實際上不知道票價低的，所以［A］不選。他們看到的只是表面現(xiàn)象［D］。
10.【正確答案】［D］is sympathetic.
【測試要點】這是一道作者態(tài)度判斷題。
【試題解析】從最后一段段首，和后面的句子看出作者認為不可能上調(diào)價格，這是很可恥的，可是鎮(zhèn)上的人們又不理解。所以實際上同情它的遭遇。
全文翻譯：
如我們所知，埃文河畔斯特拉特福德只有一種產(chǎn)業(yè)——威廉?莎士比亞,但是，它有兩個各自明確獨立而相互間敵意不斷增長的分支，這就是英國皇家莎士比亞劇團——它在埃文河畔的莎士比亞紀念劇院上演富麗堂皇的莎劇——和在很大程度上依靠到鎮(zhèn)上來不是為了看戲，而是來參觀Anne Hathaway別墅、莎士比亞的出生地以及其他景觀的旅游者的市鎮(zhèn)居民們。
斯特拉特福德尊敬的居民認為劇院沒有對他們的收入增加一文錢，他們坦率地不喜歡皇家莎士比亞劇團的演員，這些人留著長發(fā)、蓄著胡須、趿拉著拖鞋，而且很吵鬧。想到為他們掙來營生的莎士比亞本人也是演員（也留著胡子）、也參與制造噪音，這的確既有趣，也很有諷刺意味。
旅客流并非是完全分開的，那些乘坐大巴而來的游客——常常還額外參觀Warwick 城堡和 Blenheim宮——通常不看戲，有些人在斯特拉特福德看到劇院還感到吃驚。然而，來看戲者除了看戲外還要想方設(shè)法安排一些觀光活動。皇家莎士比亞劇團聲稱，正是這些愛看戲者在此過夜（有些人呆四五個晚上），把錢花在了鎮(zhèn)上的旅館飯店，為鎮(zhèn)子帶來了大部分的收入；而觀光客什么都看，夜幕降臨就離開。
鎮(zhèn)上的人們不這樣認為，地方鎮(zhèn)議會并沒有直接給皇家莎士比亞劇團提供津貼。斯特拉特福德一直善于哭窮，然而，鎮(zhèn)上的旅館幾乎每家都添加了新的側(cè)樓或雞尾酒會廳。希爾頓正在這里修建自己的旅館，你可以肯定，它會有裝飾考究的哈姆雷特漢堡吧、李爾王雅座、班柯宴會廳等等，而且價格會非常昂貴。
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