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more embarrassing situation occurs when a student starts falling into sleep and the weight of the head pushes the arm off the desk, and the 7 (move) carries the rest of the body along. The student wakes up on the floor 8 no memory of getting there. The worst time to fall asleep is when driving. Police reports are full of accidents that occur when people fall into sleep and go 9 the road. If the drivers are lucky, they are not seriously hurt. When people are really tired, 10 will stop them from falling asleep—wherever they are. Ⅴ . 閱讀理解 Today, we plete our story about the influential English writer William Shakespeare. He wrote plays and poems during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which remain very popular today. During earlier times, people would probably have learned several ancient Roman and Greek plays. It was not unusual for writers to produce more current versions of these works. For example, in Shakespeare’s play “The Comedy of Errors” Shakespeare borrowed certain details from the ancient Roman writer Plautus. For his play “Macbeth”, Shakespeare most likely used a work on Scottish history by Raphael Holinshed for information. Shakespeare might have borrowed from other writers, but the intensity(強(qiáng)度 ) of his imagination and language made the plays his own. While many plays by other writers of his time have been fotten, Shakespeare and his arts live on. Shakespeare was also influenced by the world around him. He described the sights and sounds of London in his plays. His works include observations about political struggles, the fear of diseases, and the popular language of the city’s tradesmen. Shakespeare’s knowledge of the English countryside is also clear. His works include descriptions of deep forests, local flowers, and the ancient popular traditions of rural people. It would be impossible to list all of the ways in which Shakespeare’s works have influenced the world culture. But the first and greatest example would be his great influence on the English language. During his time, the English language was changing. Many new words from other languages were being added. Shakespeare used his sharp mind and poetic(富有詩意的 ) inventiveness to create hundreds of new words and rework old ones. For example, he created the noun forms of “critic”, “mountaineer” and “eyeball”. Many mon expressions in English e from his plays, including “pomp and circumstance(裝腔作勢(shì) )” from “Othello”, “full circle(繞圈子地 )” from “King L