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everybody.

II. Choose the word which best fits each gaps of the following passage. (10p):

William Shakespeare was the (1)………. writer in the English language. He

was born in 1564 in Stratford- upon- Avon. At the age of eighteen he married

Anne Hathaway, who was eight years (2) ………. than himself. A few years later

he moved to London, where he worked as a actor and a playwright. Shakespeare

wrote thirty-seven plays and 154 sonnets (a kind of poem). His most famous plays

are the four great tragedies - Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear.

Shakespeare died in Stratford on 23 April 1616, but his plays are still very popular

today. They have been translated into different languages, and many of them have

been (3) ………. into films, both in English and other languages. Shakespeare's

plays are about the great issues of life - love, hatred, jealousy, power, ambition, (4)

………. and so on. So, his plays are just relevant today as they were in the

sixteenth (5) ………..