Bobby Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, a poor working-class neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. But Hell’s Kitchen lies right next door to Broadway, and the bright lights attracted Bobby from the time he was a teen. Being stage-struck was hardly what a street kid could admit to his partners. Fearing their making fun of him, he told no one, not even his girlfriend, when he started taking acting lessons at age 17. If you were a kid from the neighborhood, you became a cop, construction worker, longshoreman or criminal. Not an actor.
Moresco struggled to make that long walk a few blocks east. He studied acting, turned out for all the cattle calls (試戲通告)-- and during the decade of the 1970s made a total of $2,000. “I wasn’t a good actor, but I had a driving need to do something different with my life,” he says.
He moved to Hollywood, where he drove a cab and worked as a waiter. “ My father said, 'Stop this craziness and get a job; you have a wife and daughter.' ”But Moresco kept working at his chosen career.
Then in 1983 his younger brother Thomas was murdered in a killing. Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain of Hell’s Kitchen. Half-Deserted Streets, based on his brother’s killing, opened at a small Off-Broadway theater in 1988. A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to work on a screenplay.
His reputation grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. By 2003, he was again out of work and out of cash when he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. Haggis wanted help writing a film about the country after September 11. The two worked on the writing Crash, but every studio in town turned it down. They kept trying. Studio executives, however, thought no one wanted to see hard lives in modern America.
Crash slipped into the theaters in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and a critical success. It was nominated for six Academy Awards and won three -- Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Paul Haggis and the kid from Hell’s Kitchen.
At age 54, Bobby Moresco became an overnight success. “If you have something you want to do in life, don’t think about the problems,” he says, “think about other ways to get it done.” 
小題1:Why Bobby Moresco did not tell anyone that he started taking lessons at age 17?
A．He wanted to give his girlfriend a surprise.
B．His girlfriend did not allow him to do this.
C．He was afraid of being laughed at.
D．He had no talent for acting.
小題2:Which of the following sentences is NOT true?
A．His father did not support his work as a bartender.
B．Before he became an overnight success, his life experienced ups and downs.
C．His brother’s death inspired his writing Half-Deserted Streets.
D．Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen which is a few blocks east of Broadway.
小題3:The Studio executives turned the script Crash down because ______________.
A．they thought the script would not be popular.
B．the script was not well written.
C．they had no money to make the film based on the script.
D．they thought Moresco was not famous.
小題4:Which of the following can best describe Bobby Moresco?
A．a(chǎn)mbitious and persistentB．shy but hardworking
C．caring and braveD．considerate and modest

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:A

試題分析：文章講了Bobby Moresco的職業(yè)生涯，他先是夢想成為百老匯演員，但最終由于一系列事件轉(zhuǎn)而作為作家寫起了劇本。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一段Fearing their making fun of him, he told no one可知他沒有告訴別人是因?yàn)樗ε卤怀靶ΑＫ赃xC
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第二段Moresco struggled to make that long walk a few blocks east可知Broadway在Hell’s Kitchen的東邊，反過來說就是Hell’s Kitchen在百老匯西邊。所以選D
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第五段Studio executives, however, thought no one wanted to see hard lives in modern America可知劇本被拒是因?yàn)楸O(jiān)制認(rèn)為它不會受歡迎。所以選A
小題4:主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章中描述的Bobby的形象可知他是個有理想能堅持的人。所以選A
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He waited for a few more weeks till the fruit grew in     .The day came when he decided to      the first fruit of the tree. He      the tree, picked the fruit and then came his     .The fruit was not like what he expected. It was hard, big and round. He was puzzled. He was sad.
Seeing this, his      came and asked him what happened. He told them that the fruit from his tree was not what he wanted. When the neighbors heard this, they did not know whether to      or comfort him, for what he planted years ago was not a mango tree. We can only reap（收獲）what we plant.
小題1:
A．cityB．farmC．marketD．shop
小題2:
A．grewB．movedC．plantedD．threw
小題3:
A．gardenB．houseC．villageD．yard
小題4:
A．buyingB．improvingC．keepingD．raising
小題5:
A．decoratedB．equippedC．servedD．supplied
小題6:
A．greenB．redC．whiteD．yellow
小題7:
A．a(chǎn)dmiredB．drewC．greetedD．operated
小題8:
A．beneficialB．expensiveC．healthyD．tasty
小題9:
A．bearB．burstC．deserveD．make
小題10:
A．immediatelyB．quicklyC．narrowlyD．suddenly
小題11:
A．becauseB．ifC．thoughD．when
小題12:
A．flowerB．fruitC．leafD．nut
小題13:
A．riseB．increaseC．decreaseD．decline
小題14:
A．greedyB．happyC．nervousD．sad
小題15:
A．a(chǎn)geB．lengthC．sizeD．width
小題16:
A．observeB．sellC．stealD．taste
小題17:
A．climbedB．cutC．hidD．killed
小題18:
A．a(chǎn)nxietyB．cheerC．disappointmentD．opinion
小題19:
A．childrenB．friendsC．neighborsD．relatives
小題20:
A．complainB．laughC．motivateD．support

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