Question

Bobby Moresco grew up in a tough working-class neighborhood in Manhattan．The bright lights of Broadway    36    him when he was a teen．But if you were a kid from that neighborhood，you would become a（n）   37   ，longshoreman（码头装卸工人）or criminal，not an actor．

Bobby moved to Hollywood to study   38   ．“My father said，‘Stop this    39   and get a job；you have a wife and a daughter．’I wasn’t  a good actor，but I had a   40   need to do something different with my life．It was important for me to keep working at my   41   career．”In 1983 his brother Thomas was    42    ．Bobby moved back and started writing as a way to explore the pain．Half-Deserted Streets，    43    his brother’s killing，opened at a small Off-Broadway theater in 1988．A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to    44    screenplay．

    45     his reputation grew，he got   46   assignments to move back to Holly―wood．By 2003，he was again out of work and out of cash   47   he met Paul，who wanted to write a film about the country   48   September 11．The two worked on the script，but every studio in town    49   ．Bobby believed so   50   in the script that he borrowed money and sold his house to keep   51   it．At last the writers found a film producer who would take a   52    ．

In May 2005，Crash slipped into the theaters and became a smash hit（十分走红的电影）．At age 54 ，Bobby Moresco became an   53   Success．“If you have something you want to do in   54   ，don’t  think about the   55   ，”he says，“think about the ways to get it done．”

 

36．A．instructed	B．benefited	C．comforted	D．attracted
37．A．officer	B．construction worker	C．chairman	D．pianist
38．A．acting	B．writing	C．singing	D．teaching
39．A．eagerness	B．belief	C．craziness	D．chance
40．A．driving	B．forcing	C．missing	D．fading
41．A．1ost	B．abandoned	C．approved	D．chosen
42．A．suspected	B．laid off	C．murdered	D．knocked down
43．A．insisting on	B．based on	C．depending on	D．made up of
44．A．work as	B．work on	C．apply for	D．appeal to
45．A．With	B．For	C．Despite	D．As
46．A．enough	B．many	C．great	D．short
47．A．while	B．where	C．when	D．why
48．A．after	B．before	C．behind	D．until
49．A．adopted it	B．praised it	C．picked it up	D. turned it down
50．A．widely	B．strongly	C．interestingly	D．excitedly
51．A．designing	B．composing	C．pushing	D．explaining
52．A．chance	B．choice	C．thought	D．sight
53．A．overweight	B．overdeveloped	C．overdressed	D．overnight
54．A．motion	B．opinion	C．1ife	D．dream
55．A．deadline	B．problems	C．rewards	D．future

Answer 1

36．D     37．B     38．A     39．C     40．A

41．D     42．C     43．B     44．B     45．D    

46．A     47．C     48．A     49．D     50．B

51．C     52．A     53．D     54．C     55．B