William Shakespeare(26 April 1564- 23 April 1616) was an English poetand playwright(剧作家),who is now regarded as the greatest writer of theEnglish language.His surviving works include 38 plays,two long narrativepoems(叙事诗)，154 sonnets(十四行诗),and a few other poems.He is oftencalled England' s national poet.His plays have been translated into everymajor living language and are performed more often than those of any otherplaywright.Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon.At theage of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children:Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.Sometime between 1585 and 1592,Shakespeare moved to London, where he found success as an actor,writer,

and part-owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.Heappears to have retired to Stratford around 1613，where he died three yearslater1.Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and1613.He at first wrote mainly comedies(喜剧)and histories.He then wrotemainly tragedies until 1608, producing what are considered some of thegreatest in the language2，including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.Manyof Shakespeare’s plays were published during his lifetime in editions ofvariable quality and accuracy.Shakespeare was a respected poet andplaywright in his own day; but it was not until the eighteenth century that hisreputation began its rise to the heights it enjoys today.In the twentieth century,Shakespeare’s work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by newmovements in scholarship and performance.

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1.We took them to the tea room in our school, where I introduced the historyof tea-making and different kinds of tea and so on.(2018·北京卷，书面表达)
2.Then I showed them how to make tea.I sat at a table,explaining every stepof the process while making tea.(2018北京卷,书面表达)