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放directions 时抢读表格,对表格要求填写的内容要特别留意,做到有的放矢地去
捕捉信息。请看下面的例子:
On March 25 th ,1616, fifty-two-year-old Master William Shakespeare signed his will leaving the famous legacy
of his “second best bed and furniture” to his wife and the greater part
of his estate to his married daughter, Susanna Hall. It was the will of a
comfortably off man, for the income from the estate probably amounted
to about £200 a year, which was a lot of money over three hundred and
sixty years ago. For historians, the most interesting part of the will was
that signature, because it and other signatures are all we have left of the
handwriting of the world’s literary genius. There is no country where
Shakespeare’s work is not
read with something very like awe because there is something fascinating
about a man whose work so much better than that of anyone else. Yet
in spite of the thousands of books that have been written about th