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题组9　人物介绍+科普知识+环境保护+时文报道 专题一　阅读理解　第三节　题组训练 A (2017·第一次全国大联考) Alan Simpson formed，with Ray Galton，one of the great television scriptwriting partnerships.Their early work with Tony Hancock pioneered what became known as situation comedy. Alan Simpson was born in Brixton，London on 27 November 1929.After leaving school，he obtained a job as a shipping clerk before contracting tuberculosis.He became so ill that he was not expected to live and was given the last rites.However，he survived.And he met his future partner，another teenage TB sufferer named Ray Galton. They discovered a shared love of American humorists such as Damon Runyon and had both listened to radio comedy programmes Take It from Here and The Goon Shows.Their first work together was for hospital radio.Have You Ever Wondered was based on their experiences，which was played out in 1949. When Simpson left hospital he was asked by a local church concert party to write a show and he roped in Ray Galton to help.The pair also linked up with several other promising new comedy writers and performers of the time，notably Eric Sykes，Peter Sellers，Frankie Howerd and Tony Hancock.They were quickly tired of the format of radio comedy shows of the time which included music，sketches and one-liners，and longed for something with more depth.They came up with the idea of comedy where all the humour came from the situations in which characters find themselves.Tony Hancock liked the idea and Hancock’s Half Hour was born. It is often credited as the first true radio sitcom，although two other shows of the time，A Life of Bliss and Life with the Lyons，were already using the format in 1954 when Hancock first aired. In 1956 the series transferred to TV and ran until 1961.Another original four series ran between 1962 and 1965 and the show was revived between 1970 and 1974，during which time two feature film versions were also released.It proved to be the high point. Simpson quit writing in 1978 to pursue his other business interests altho