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云南省曲靖市2014高考英语(阅读理解)一轮训练题(4)及答案abobby moresco grew up in new yorks hells kitchen, a tough working-class neighborhood on manhattans west side. but hells 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 wasnt 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(酒保). “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(继承物)of hells kitchen. half-deserted streets, based on his brothers 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(冲突、碰撞) 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 hells kitchen. at age 54, bobby moresco became an overnight success. “if you have something you want to do in life, dont think about the problems,” he says, “think about other ways to get it done.” 10. 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 to learn acting in spite of hardness with the belief of doing something different.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 11. 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.12. the studio executives turned the script crash down because _.a. they thought the script would not be popularb. the script was not well writtenc. they had no money to make the film based on the script.d. they thought moresco was not famous.13. whats the best title of the passage? a. the road to successb. try it a different wayc. a talented man-morescod. morescos perseverance 14. which of the following can best describe bobby moresco?a. initiative(主动的) and persistent(坚持的)b. shy but hardworking c. caring and braved. aggressive and modest参考答案啊 acaba*结束(2011福建卷)d jacqueline bouvier kennedy onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展现) herself as she did nowhere else.after the death of her second husband,greek shipping magnate aristotieonassis laquelines close friend and former white house social ? letitis baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing.after consideration,jacqueline accepted it.perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life .she became not less but more interested in reading.for the last 20 years of her life, jacqueline worked as a publishers editor, first at viking,then at doubleday ,pursuing(追求)a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined.during her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 sucessfully marketed books.among the first books were in the russian style and inventive paris clothes.she also succeeded in persuading tv hosts bill moyers and joseph campbell to transform their popular television conversation into a book ,the power of myth.the book went on to become an international best-seller.she dealt too.with michael jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传),moonwalk.jaequelinered for her name and for her social relations,but she soon provedher worth.her shoicas,suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing since and to jacqueline herself.in the books she selected for publication,she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind.her books are the autobiofraphy she never wrote,her role as first lady,in the end,was overshadowed by her performance as an editor.however,few knew that she had achteved so much.68.we can learn from the passage that jecqueline a.because fond of reading after working as an editorb.was in charge of publishing 100 booksc.promoted lier books through social relationsd.gained a lot from her career as an editor69.the underlined sentence in the last paragph probably means this a.jscquelines ended up as an editor rather than as first ladyb. jscquelines life as first lady was more colorful than as an editorc. jscqueline w
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