题目内容
A total of 264,302 people in the country were reported __________ with HIV by the end of last September.
A. to have been infected B. to be infected
C. to having been infected D. to have infected
A
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."
【小题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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
A.The Road to Success | B.Try It a Different Way |
C.A Talented man—Moresco | D.Moresco’s Perseverance |
A.initiative and persistent | B.shy but hardworking |
C.caring and brave | D.aggressive and modest |
Competition between international universities is heating up, as China grows as one of the largest exporters of students aiming to study abroad. “Lots of universities are becoming more and more aggressive to attract Chinese students. Every day I receive contacts from universities in the US expressing the desire to come to China to recruit students,” said Frank Joseph, a commercial officer from embassy of the United States.
One key reason why more Chinese students are able to study abroad is the economy: With China’s boom within the past decade, more families have the financial wherewithal (资金) to send their children to international universities. There will be a total of 200,000 family-funded Chinese students studying overseas in 2011, up 20 percent from last year, said Wu Zaofeng, deputy secretary general of China Education Association for International Exchange.
International institutions, Joseph said, are also facing increasingly tough financial situation with a shortage of domestic students and a drop in government subsidies (补贴). Students, especially in the US are paying high tuition fees and living expenses. Chinese students with money to spend, according to experts, can fill up the gap. Students on average spend 150,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan every year studying in US, according to statistics from the US Institute of International Education. During 2009-2010, there were approximately 81,000 Chinese students studying in the US, up 19.8 percent from 2008.
Representatives from approximately 60 universities from the United States are planning to arrive in Beijing this weekend to attract more Chinese students at this year’s fair. Besides the US, many other countries are also vying (竞争) to enroll Chinese students.
Post-study work visa put out by British government allows all international students completing a UK degree qualification to apply for a visa to stay on and look for work in UK for up to 2 years. Being the third most popular destination for international students next to the US and the UK, France has set up two types of scholarships and has handed out an increase of 26 percent in scholarship funds to Chinese students in recent years.
1.The reason for heating up competition between international universities is __________.
A.that China has become one of the largest exporters of the students aiming to study abroad |
B.China’s boom, the students’ desire and foreign universities’ commercial motive |
C.that the students in China are becoming richer and richer |
D.that the students in foreign countries do not want to go to universities |
2.Why are more Chinese students able to study abroad?
A.Because their families have enough money to send them to international universities. |
B.Because they can’t go to the best universities at home. |
C.Because they want to win the scholarship of foreign universities |
D.Because the Chinese students enjoy following others and they want to be independent. |
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.In 2011 there will be 200,000 Chinese students studying in the US. |
B.Chinese students are able to study abroad for their relatives overseas. |
C.In 2011 there will be 200,000 state-funded Chinese students studying overseas. |
D.There are fewer family-funded Chinese students studying abroad in 2010 than in 2011. |
4.From the passage we can learn that __________.
A.the number of foreign students is becoming smaller and smaller |
B.the international universities are short of money |
C.there were approximately 81,000 foreign students studying in the US during 2009-2010 |
D.the Chinese students spend more money than the American students |