黑龙江宝清县2017高考英语一轮复习 阅读理解学生自练题.docVIP

黑龙江宝清县2017高考英语一轮阅读理解学生自练题 （2016高考训练）阅读下列材料，从每题所给的选项中选出最佳选项。Bobby 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－stuck 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(试戏通知)—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(酒吧侍者)．His 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 young 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 Hells Kitchen.Half－Deserted Streets，based on his brothers killing，opened at a small Off－Broadway theatre in 1988.A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to work on a screenplay. His reputation grew，and he got enough assignment 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 h