高中英语阅读达人赛试题.docx

高中英语阅读达人赛试题 2015-6-1Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET. (30 points)Try It a Different WayBobby Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, a tough working-class neighbourhood on Manhattan’s West Side. By tradition he 1 have been a construction worker or a policeman, just like his father and most of his childhood pals.2 , he wanted out. Attracted by the bright lights from the time Bobby was a teen, he tried to 3 . “I wasn’t a 4 actor, but I had a driving need to do something 5 with my life,” he said.He moved to Hollywood, promising to find his 6 . But he didn’t make it. For almost 10 years, he drove a taxi and worked as a waiter, volunteering at an actors’ workshop that he opened in Hollywood. But Moresco kept working at his 7 career.In 1983 his younger brother was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco was forced to give up working and moved back to his 8 neighbourhood. In 1988 he finally wrote a play that was 9 to his life. Called Half-Deserted Streets, it was based on his brother’s 10 and staged at a small theater. A Hollywood producer 11 to see it and asked him to work on a screenplay.His 12 grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. However, it was never easy. By 2003, he was 13 out of work and out of cash 14 he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. The two worked on the script and tried some famous studios, but their request was 15 . Moresco believed so 16 in the script that he borrowed money, and sold his house. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance.The 17 , Crash, slipped into the theatres in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and an overnight success. It 18 him two Academy Awards — Best Film Editing and Best Writing.At the age of 54, Bobby Moresco became an19 success. “If you have somet