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He was no scholar, and his classmates teased him.Rather than reading, the kid really preferred running around with an 8mm camera, shooting homemade movies of wrecks of his Lionel train set(which he showed to friends for a small fee)
In his second year of high school he dropped out.But when his parents persuaded him to return, he was mistakenly placed in a learning-disabled class, he lasted one month.Only when his family moved to another town did he land in a more suitable high school where he graduated eventually.
After being denied entrance into a traditional filmmaking school, Steven Spielberg enrolled in English at California State University at Long Beach .Then in 1965 he recalls ,in one of those casual moments, his life took a complete turn.Visiting Universal Studios , he met Chuck Silvers, an executive in the editorial department.Silvers liked the kid who made 8mm films and invited him back sometime to visit.
He appeared the next day.Without a job or a security clearance , Spielberg(dressed in a dark suit and tie, carrying his father’s briefcase with nothing inside but “a sandwich and candy bars’’)walked confidently up to the guard at the gate of Universal Studios and gave him a casual wave.The guard waved back.He was in.
“For the entire summer,” Spielberg remembers,” I dressed in my suit and hung out with the directors and writes including Silvers, who knew the kid was not a studio employee, but winked at the deception) I even found an office that was not being used ,and became a squatter.I bought some plastic tiles and put my name in the building directory: Steven Spielberg, Room 23C〞
It paid off for everyone.Ten years later the 28-year-old Spielberg directed Jaws, which took in $470 million, then the highest-grossing movie of all time.Dozens of films and awards have followed because Steven Spielberg knew what his teachers didn’t---talent is in the eyes of the filmmaker.
1.What is the text mainly about?
A.Dream is more important than knowledge
B.How Spielberg made his first famous film Jaws
C.Spielberg has a gift for filming
D.How Spielberg became a famous director
2.From the 4th and 5th paragraph we can know ___
A.he was confident and this won others’ admiration
B.he worked hard and got his own office
C.usually people can not come into Universal Studios freely
D.he had been accepted as a member of the company
3.What does the underlined word〝 winked〞mean?
A.shown great concern B.became angry
C.had to be silent D.pretended not to notice
4.Silvers helped Spielberg probably because__________
A.he was Spielberg’s father’s friend
B.Spielberg’s talent and passion for filming moved him
C.he hoped to find a good employee for Universal Studios
D.he was sure Spielberg would become a great director
D
C
D
B
【解析】略
On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to 36 in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she 37 a big bald(秃顶的)man running through the parking lot. Before she came to 38 what would happen, the man was there, shouting through her window. “Get out!”
Neilson 39 .
Pulling open her door, the man seized her 40 the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed, 41 her purse and the keys.
Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a 42 , heard the screams and began running.
When they 43 Neilson’s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was 44 searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker 45 back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no 46 for the two athletic men.
Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to 47 the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes —— used to tie up newspapers.
With his arms 48 tightly behind him, the prisoner looked up and said 49 , “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves – you just caught one of the most wanted men.” They 50 him and waited for the police.
Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the 51 carjacker(劫车者) and suspected murderer, whose 52 —but with a full head of hair – had been recently printed in their own newspaper.
Neilson considers herself lucky 53 she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a 54 ending if those good people had not come to her aid. “Unfortunately,” she says, “many people would 55 have done what they did, and that is the real truth.”
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