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| Bobby Moresco grew up in a tough working-class neighborhood in Manhattan. The bright lights of Broadway 1 him when he was a teen. But if you were a kid from that neighborhood, you would become a(n) 2 , longshoreman (码头装卸工人) or criminal, not an actor. Bobby moved to Hollywood to study 3 . "My father said, 'Stop this 4 and get a job; you have a wife and a daughter.' I wasn't a good actor, but I had a 5 need to do something different with my life. It was important for me to keep working at my 6 career." In 1983 his brother Thomas was 7 . Bobby moved back and started writing as a way to explore the pain. Half-Deserted Streets, 8 his brother's killing,opened at a small Off-Broadway theater in 1988. A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to 9 screenplay. 10 his reputation grew, he got 11 assignments to move back to Holly-wood. By 2003, he was again out of work and out of cash 12 he met Paul, who wanted to write a film about the country 13 September 11. The two worked on the script, but every studio in town 14 . Bobby believed so 15 in the script that he borrowed money and sold his house to keep 16 it. At last the writers found a film producer who would take a 17 . 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 18 Success. "If you have something you want to do in 19 , don't think about the 20 ," he says, "think about the ways to get it done." | ||||
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| The True Story of Treasure Island It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination 1 , recent research has found the true story of this exciting work. Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived 2 for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a 3 . With him were his American wife Fanny and his son 4 . Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long 5 over the hills. They had been 6 this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain Lloyd felt the days 7 . To keep the boy happy Robert asked the boy to do some 8 . One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert 9 that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of 10 "What's that?" he asked "That's the 11 treasure." said the boy. Robert suddenly 12 something of an adventure story in the boy's 13 . While the rain was pouring Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the 14 a twelve-year-old boy just like Lloyd. But who would he the pirate (海盗)? Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the 15 of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to 16 such a man in a story. 17 Long John Silver the pirate with a wooden leg, was 18 . So, thanks to a 19 September in Scotland a friend with a wooden leg and the imagination of a twelve- year-old boy we have one of the greatest 20 stories in the English language. | ||||
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| Growing up on a remote Michigan farm, Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, knew little of farming. Like most pioneer farmers, his father, William, hoped that his eldest son would 1 him on the farm, enable it to expand, and eventually take it 2 . But Henry proved a 3 . He hated farm work and did everything he could to 4 it. It was not that he was lazy. 5 from it! Give him a mechanical job to do, from mending a gate to sharpening tools, 6 he would set to work eagerly. It was the daily life of the farm, with its dull tasks, 7 upset him. Henry was excited by the development in technology that could 8 farmers like his father from wasteful and 9 labor. But these developments, in Henry's boyhood, had touched farming 10 at all and farmers went on doing things in the way they had always done. So Henry 11 his attention elsewhere. When he was twelve, he became 12 in clocks and watches. Soon he was repairing them for friends, working at a bench he built in his bedroom. In 1876, Henry suffered a serious 13 . His mother died in childbirth. 14 was no reason for him to stay on the farm, and he 15 to get away as soon as he could. Three years later, he took a job as a mechanic in Detroit. 16 this time steam engines had joined clocks and watches as objects of Henry's fascination. Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen. A chance meeting with an old co-worker 7 a job for Henry as an engineer at the Edison Detroit Electricity Company. When he quickly learned the ropes of his new job, his interest in fuel engines had come to control his life. Henry learned 18 a slow, painstaking business it was to build an engine by hand. Every piece of every part had to be made individually, checked and rechecked, and tested. 19 the burden, he joined forces with another mechanic, Jim Bishop. Even so, it was two years 20 they succeeded in building a working car. Henry called it "Quadricycle." (四轮驱动脚踏车) | ||||
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