It is commonly believed that the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. But it is impossible to know the 1)__________ day on which he was born.
Church records show he was baptized (施洗礼) on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newly born baby. Shakespeare's date of death is 2)__________ known, however: it was April 23, 1616. He was 52 and had retired to Stratford three years before.
Although few plays have been performed or analyzed as extensively as the 38 plays Shakespeare wrote, there are few surviving details about his life. This 3)_________ of biographical information is due primarily to his social 4)_________; he was not a noble, but the son of a leather trader.
Shakespeare 5)__________ attended the grammar school in Stratford, where he would have studied Latin and read 6)__________ literature. He did not go to university and at age 18 married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years his 7)_________. They had four children, including the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Nothing is known of the period between the birth of the twins and Shakespeare's 8)_________ as a dramatist in London in the early 1590s.
In a million words written over 20 years, he 9)_________ the full range of human emotions and conflicts with a 10)_________ that remains sharp today. As his great contemporary the poet and dramatist Ben Jonson said, "He was not of an age, but for all time."
A) captured I) precision
B) classical J) probably
C) conclusively K) quality
D) emergence L) scarcity
E) exact M) senior
F) generated N) separated
G) particular 0) systematically
H) position
答案解析：
根据“But it is impossible to know”以及语境可知，不可能知道他出生的确切日子，所以选E。
根据“however”表示转折，前面说出生日期不确定，这里说死亡日期是确切可知的，“conclusively”有“确切地，肯定地”意思，所以选C。
根据“there are few surviving details about his life”可知关于他生平的细节很少，也就是传记信息的缺乏，“scarcity”表示“缺乏，不足”，所以选L。
根据“he was not a noble, but the son of a leather trader”可知这是在说他的社会地位，“position”表示“地位”，所以选H。
根据语境这里表示莎士比亚可能上过斯特拉特福德的文法学校，“probably”表示“可能”，所以选J。
根据“studied Latin”以及常识可知在文法学校会学习拉丁语并阅读古典文学，“classical”表示“古典的”，所以选B。
根据“He did not go to university and at age 18 married Anne Hathaway”以及常识可知这里说的是妻子比他大八岁，“senior”可表示“年长的”，所以选M。
根据语境这里说的是从双胞胎出生到莎士比亚作为剧作家在伦敦出现这段时期的情况，“emergence”表示“出现”，所以选D。
根据“the full range of human emotions and conflicts”可知这里说的是他捕捉到了人类各种情感和冲突，“captured”有“捕捉，抓住”意思，所以选A。
根据“remains sharp today”可知这里说的是他以一种至今仍然敏锐的精准度捕捉情感和冲突，“precision”表示“精准度”，所以选I。
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