填空题

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the banks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet. His (36) works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long (37) poems, and several other poems. His plays have been (38) into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly (39) and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including (40) , King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies; also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his (41) In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now (42) as Shakespeare’s.
Shakespeare was a (43) .poet and playwright in his own day, (44) . The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare’s genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "Mariolatry". In the twentieth century, (45) . His plays remain highly popular today and are (46)