The story is little known, but the anthologist Allie Esiri stumbled across it while researching her new book.“It's extraordinary that it may have been Shakespeare's words that jolted he guard's humanity," she said.
After the Holocaust(大屠杀) Eva was reunited with her boyfriend, Jan. They married, moved to the US and both taught chemistry at Illinois University, Yet none of that might have happened had she not been cast in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1944. Eva never got to appear in the show as she was driven to the Theresienstadt ghetto Czechoslovakia, where 33,000 died. But it was there that she met the love of her life.
Now 95, Jan still remembers falling in love with the girl he saw helping elderly people with their luggage as they arrived. He read poetry with her and Eva would recite the lines she never got to perform. “Shakespeare was a very important part of her life. I loved hearing her recite it,”he said.
Months later Eva was saying those lines again in the Polish winter. By then, she had lost her father at Auschwitz. She and her mother were assessed by Dr. Josef Mengele and had been sent to the Kurzbach labor camp. It was there that a guard she knew as Suchy heard her lines as Titania.“He seemed to be listening to my recitations,” Eva wrote in her memoir.
The mere act of him talking to her was forbidden but Eva also noted that he spoke to her with the polite form of“you” in German. Mr. Rocek said that Suchy had no ulterior motive.“He never tried in the slightest to touch her or anything,” he said. The guard kept a watchful eye over Eva and her mother, particularly when the inmates were marched toward the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Knowing this was a path to death, Suchy approached Eva's mother Anna early one morning and told them to escape. Eva, Anna and three others fled into the woods.
Esiri, who includes the story in her book Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, says:“You wouldn't think those conversations in concentration camps had any human moments.”Michael Dobson, professor of Shakespeare studies at Birmingham University, said: “It's what culture's for. To provide channels of communication between people even in the hardest circumstances.”Eva and Jan were married from 1947 until her death in 2015, aged 87. He said:“We saw A Midsummer Night's Dream whenever we had a chance.”
45. Put the following events in the correct order.
a. Eva and Jan moved to the US and taught in a university,
b. Eva met Jan and lost her heart to him.
c. Eva's father passed away at Auschwitz.
d. Eva was forced to leave for Czechoslovakia.
e. Eva and her mother were sent to the Kurzbach labor camp.
A. b d e c a B. d b c e a
C. d b e c a D. b d c e a
46. What can be learned from the passage?
A. Eva served hard labor in Kurzbach labor camp.
B. Eva performed in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1944.
C. Only Eva and her mother successfully escaped.
D. Suchy loved Eva because of their common interest.
47. What does the underlined word in paragraph 6 probably mean?
A. hidden B. strong
C. profit D. prime
48. What is Esiri's purpose of saying“You wouldn't think those conversation in concentration camps had any human moments?”
A. To arouse readers' sympathy for the victims in concentration camps.
B. To highlight the precious humanity that shone even in total darkness.
C. To condemn the Nazis who had no mercy on people in concentration camps.
D. To describe concentration camps as places where people showed no humanity.
49. What adjectives can be used to describe Eva?
A. Helpful and proud B. Romantic and sensitive
C. Optimistic and brave D. Sociable and knowledgeable
50. Which is the best title of this passage?
A. A romantic story starting with Shakespeare
B. Literature: a channel of communication
C. Shakespeare: a reminder of humanity
D. The Jewish girl saved by Shakespeare
【答案】
After the Holocaust(大屠杀) Eva was reunited with her boyfriend, Jan. They married, moved to the US and both taught chemistry at Illinois University, Yet none of that might have happened had she not been cast in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1944. Eva never got to appear in the show as she was driven to the Theresienstadt ghetto Czechoslovakia, where 33,000 died. But it was there that she met the love of her life.
Now 95, Jan still remembers falling in love with the girl he saw helping elderly people with their luggage as they arrived. He read poetry with her and Eva would recite the lines she never got to perform. “Shakespeare was a very important part of her life. I loved hearing her recite it,”he said.
Months later Eva was saying those lines again in the Polish winter. By then, she had lost her father at Auschwitz. She and her mother were assessed by Dr. Josef Mengele and had been sent to the Kurzbach labor camp. It was there that a guard she knew as Suchy heard her lines as Titania.“He seemed to be listening to my recitations,” Eva wrote in her memoir.
The mere act of him talking to her was forbidden but Eva also noted that he spoke to her with the polite form of“you” in German. Mr. Rocek said that Suchy had no ulterior motive.“He never tried in the slightest to touch her or anything,” he said. The guard kept a watchful eye over Eva and her mother, particularly when the inmates were marched toward the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Knowing this was a path to death, Suchy approached Eva's mother Anna early one morning and told them to escape. Eva, Anna and three others fled into the woods.
Esiri, who includes the story in her book Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, says:“You wouldn't think those conversations in concentration camps had any human moments.”Michael Dobson, professor of Shakespeare studies at Birmingham University, said: “It's what culture's for. To provide channels of communication between people even in the hardest circumstances.”Eva and Jan were married from 1947 until her death in 2015, aged 87. He said:“We saw A Midsummer Night's Dream whenever we had a chance.”
45. Put the following events in the correct order.
a. Eva and Jan moved to the US and taught in a university,
b. Eva met Jan and lost her heart to him.
c. Eva's father passed away at Auschwitz.
d. Eva was forced to leave for Czechoslovakia.
e. Eva and her mother were sent to the Kurzbach labor camp.
A. b d e c a B. d b c e a
C. d b e c a D. b d c e a
46. What can be learned from the passage?
A. Eva served hard labor in Kurzbach labor camp.
B. Eva performed in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1944.
C. Only Eva and her mother successfully escaped.
D. Suchy loved Eva because of their common interest.
47. What does the underlined word in paragraph 6 probably mean?
A. hidden B. strong
C. profit D. prime
48. What is Esiri's purpose of saying“You wouldn't think those conversation in concentration camps had any human moments?”
A. To arouse readers' sympathy for the victims in concentration camps.
B. To highlight the precious humanity that shone even in total darkness.
C. To condemn the Nazis who had no mercy on people in concentration camps.
D. To describe concentration camps as places where people showed no humanity.
49. What adjectives can be used to describe Eva?
A. Helpful and proud B. Romantic and sensitive
C. Optimistic and brave D. Sociable and knowledgeable
50. Which is the best title of this passage?
A. A romantic story starting with Shakespeare
B. Literature: a channel of communication
C. Shakespeare: a reminder of humanity
D. The Jewish girl saved by Shakespeare
【答案】
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