He was against the law and put into _______ last month for robbery.

  A. the prison         B. a prison        C. prison           D. prison   

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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解

Bobby Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a tough 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 ridicule, 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 -- 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 bartender. "My father said, 'Stop this craziness and get a job; you have a wife and daughter.' “But Moresco kept working at his chosen craft.

   Then in 1983 his younger brother Thomas was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain and the patrimony 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, but every studio in town turned it down. They kept pitching it. Studio executives, however, thought no one wanted to see a severe, honest vision of race and fear and lives in collision in modern America.

Moresco believed so strongly in the script that he borrowed money, sold his house. He and Haggis kept pushing. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance, but the upfront money was too little, Moresco delayed his salary.

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."

Rearrange the following statements in term of time order:

a. His work Half-Deserted Streets drew attention as it opened at a small Off-Broadway theater

b. Unexpectedly Crash became both a hit and a huge success.

c. He moved to Hollywood to be a taxi driver and a waiter.

d. He started learn acting in spite of hardness with the belief of doing something diiferent.

e. His younger brother Thomas was killed in conflict among bullies.

A. d; c; e; a; b      B. d; e; c; b; a    C. c; d; e; a; b    D. c; e; d; b; a 

Why Bobby Moresco did not tell anyone that he started taking lessons at age 17?

A. He wnted 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.

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.

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.

What’s the best title of the article?

A. The Road to Success              B. Try It a Different Way

C. A Talented man—Moresco          D. Moresco’s Perseverance

Which of the following can best describe Bobby Moresco?

A. initiative and persistent             B. shy but hardworking  

C. caring and brave                  D. aggressive and modest

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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解

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A few years ago I was at an international conference with nearly 700 participants. One afternoon I_a very crowded talk by a famous author. The hall filled quickly and soon there were no  2   left , so many dozens of people were standing around the edges.

I saw a very elderly man, stooped(駝背的) slightly with age,   3   against the wall. I immediately got up, told those sitting beside me to   4   the place for him and made my way to him. When I offered my seat to him , he looked  5    and started to refuse , but I would have   6   of that. He asked me my name and thanked me deeply, and then made his  7   back into my row and sat comfortably. Many people who  8   our exchange turned to say what a kind thing I had done. I kept saying , “it’s nothing  9  . I m from Canada, it’s normal for us to help other people!” 

A few minutes later, the man sitting next to the elderly man  10   to leave the hall for another talk and the elderly man   11   to me to return and sit beside him.   12   I resisted, thinking someone else might need it more, but people sitting around him started to repeat my  13 , asking me to come and sit! So I returned and sat beside the gentleman for the  14  .

when the talk was over ,the man thanked me again and  15   asked if I knew who he was . I had no idea. He then looked quite delighted and  16  me a household name that I recognized immediately!

I was astonished to have been sitting next to him,  17  he was excited to think I had given up my seat for him  18   knowing who he was! Again I had to tell him where I come from , and it’s the  19   thing to do! I have felt more blessed to be a Canadian since that day, for seeing how easy it is to  20  someone and how rare it seemed to so many people.

1. A. missed            B. gave           C. expected         D. attended

2. A. seats              B. rooms         C. topics            D. rows

3. A. turning            B. walking        C. leaning           D. lying

4. A. move             B. spare          C. take              D. hold

5. A. glad              B. satisfied        C. disappointed       D. surprised

6. A. nothing           B. none           C. something         D. anything

7. A. living            B. fortune           C. direction           D. way

8. A. witnessed         B. confirmed         C. remembered        D. experienced

9. A. easy             B. popular            C. special            D. funny

10. A. agreed           B. refused             C. chose             D. forgot

11. A. sent             B. signaled            C. rolled             D. said

12. A. At last           B. At least             C. At most           D. At first

13. A. action            B. name              C. dream            D. address

14. A. game            B. discussion           C. course            D. talk  

15. A. quietly           B. loudly.              C. proudly           D. angrily  

16. A. shared            B. told                C. asked             D. answered  

17. A. as if              B. even if             C. so                D .but  

18. A. by               B. without              C. through           D. after

19. A. strange           B. secret               C. normal            D. hard  

20. A. help              B. accept              C. praise            D. trust   

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科目:高中英語 來源:2013-2014學(xué)年高考二輪復(fù)習(xí)考前沖刺(四)英語試卷(解析版) 題型:完型填空

I grew up one of ten children on a farm in Wyoming.After my dad’s service in World War he was ____ again to fight during the Korean War,and when he returned homehe couldn’t drink ____ to numb(麻痹) his terrible memories.He struggled to ____ for his growing family.

On our occasional trips to town,I ____ out boxfuls of books from the library.When I opened a book,I could ____ myself in unknown places—where children weren’t hungry and were in ____ of little.

When I wasn’t daydreaming,my ____ was the life I shared with my brothers and sisters.At night I hid under the covers ____ to silence the sounds of life in an alcoholic home.Classmates asked ____ we didn’t have electricity or a telephone.I suppose my explanations were ____ more than liesbut the stories I told improved ____ every book I read.

Starting at a very young age,my siblings(兄弟姐妹) and I sometimes got jobs to earn money—to put more food on the family table.We ____ newspapers,babysat,and cleaned other people’s houses.

Mom grew vegetables,raised chickensand baked breadso we seldom went hungry,even when supper was only a pot of beans.____ my real hunger wasn’t for food—it was a hunger for a better life.It was a hunger for knowledge about the world ___ our simple existence.It was a hunger to prove Dad ____ when he told us we would never amount to anything.

Hunger motivated my brothers and sisters to achieve much ____ than our parents expected ___ us.We devoured(如饑似渴地吸取) the offerings of the public schools because we realized that ____ would be our steppingstone into a brighter future.

Now I’m ____ of the accomplishments of my siblingsan art professor;a well?known doctorplus business owners.And me,I’m the keeper of the family stores.I’ll never know if we would have so many accumulated successes if we had not known ____ as children.But this I do knowI believe it can be a good thing.

1.A.drafted? Bdismissed

Cinvited? Dinvolved

2.A.well? Bplenty

Cenough? Dheavily

3.A.search? Bprovide

Chope? Dleave

4.A.brought? Bchecked

Cgave? Dcarried

5.A.remind? Bhelp

Cdevote? Dfind

6.A.memory? Bfavor

Cpossession? Dneed

7.A.reality? Bfantasy

Csatisfaction? Daffection

8.A.refusing? Bpretending

Cattempting? Dpreparing

9.A.whether? Bhow

Cwhen? Dwhy

10.A.something? Banything

Cnothing? Deverything

11.A.as? Bwith

Cfor? Dat

12.A.sent? Bdelivered

Cpublished? Dreleased

13.A.But? BAnd

CThen? DOtherwise

14.A.above? Baround

Cwithin? Dbeyond

15.A.right? Bmean

Cwrong? Dnice

16.A.more? Bfurther

Cgreater? Dbetter

17.A.in? Bfor

Cof? Don

18.A.ambition? Bdream

Centhusiasm? Deducation

19.A.hunger? Bsuffering

Cdesperation? Dpoverty

20.A.fond? Bproud

Caware? Dconfident

 

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科目:高中英語 來源:2015屆浙江省高二上學(xué)期期中英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解

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.” 

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.

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.

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.

4.Which of the following can best describe Bobby Moresco?

A. ambitious and persistent                                                             B. shy but hardworking  

C. caring and brave                                                                                     D. considerate and modest

 

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科目:高中英語 來源:2010-2011學(xué)年浙江省高三第七次月考英語卷 題型:閱讀理解

Bobby Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a tough 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 ridicule, 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 -- 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 bartender. "My father said, 'Stop this craziness and get a job; you have a wife and daughter.' “But Moresco kept working at his chosen craft.

   Then in 1983 his younger brother Thomas was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain and the patrimony 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, but every studio in town turned it down. They kept pitching it. Studio executives, however, thought no one wanted to see a severe, honest vision of race and fear and lives in collision in modern America.

Moresco believed so strongly in the script that he borrowed money, sold his house. He and Haggis kept pushing. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance, but the upfront money was too little, Moresco delayed his salary.

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."

1. Rearrange the following statements in term of time order:

a. His work Half-Deserted Streets drew attention as it opened at a small Off-Broadway theater

b. Unexpectedly Crash became both a hit and a huge success.

c. He moved to Hollywood to be a taxi driver and a waiter.

d. He started learn acting in spite of hardness with the belief of doing something diiferent.

e. His younger brother Thomas was killed in conflict among bullies.

A. d; c; e; a; b      B. d; e; c; b; a    C. c; d; e; a; b    D. c; e; d; b; a 

2. Why Bobby Moresco did not tell anyone that he started taking lessons at age 17?

A. He wnted 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.

3. 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.

4.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.

5.What’s the best title of the article?

A. The Road to Success              B. Try It a Different Way

C. A Talented man—Moresco          D. Moresco’s Perseverance

6. Which of the following can best describe Bobby Moresco?

A. initiative and persistent             B. shy but hardworking  

C. caring and brave                  D. aggressive and modest

 

 

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