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Bobby Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen a\\x0dpoor working-class neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. But Hell’s Kitchen\\x0dlies right next door to Broadway and the bright lights attracted Bobby from\\x0dthe time he was a teen. Being stage-struck was hardly what a street kid could\\x0dadmit to his partners. Fearing their making fun of him he told no one not\\x0deven his girlfriend when he started taking acting lessons at age 17. If you\\x0dwere a kid from the neighborhood you became a cop construction worker \\x0dlongshoreman or criminal. Not an actor.

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   Moresco struggled to make that long walk\\x0da few blocks east. He studied acting turned out for all the cattle calls (试戏通告)-- and during the decade of the 1970s made a total of\\x0d$2 000. “I wasn’t a good actor but I had a driving need to do something\\x0ddifferent with my life ” he says.

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He moved to Hollywood where he drove a cab and worked\\x0das a waiter. “ My father said 'Stop this craziness and get a job; you have a\\x0dwife and daughter.' ”But Moresco kept working at his chosen career.

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   Then in 1983 his younger brother Thomas\\x0dwas murdered in a killing. Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and\\x0dstarted writing as a way to explore the pain of Hell’s Kitchen. Half-Deserted\\x0dStreets based on his brother’s killing opened at a small Off-Broadway theater\\x0din 1988. A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to work on a screenplay.

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    His reputation grew and he got\\x0denough assignments to move back to Hollywood. By 2003 he was again out of work\\x0dand out of cash when he got a call from Paul Haggis a director who had\\x0dbefriended him. Haggis wanted help writing a film about the country after\\x0dSeptember 11. The two worked on the writing Crash but every studio in town\\x0dturned it down. They kept trying. Studio executives however thought no one\\x0dwanted to see hard lives in modern America.

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Crash slipped into the theaters in May 2005 and\\x0dquietly became both a hit and a critical success. It was nominated for six\\x0dAcademy Awards and won three -- Best Picture Best Film Editing and Best\\x0dWriting (Original Screenplay) by Paul Haggis and the kid from Hell’s Kitchen.

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   At age 54 Bobby Moresco became an\\x0dovernight success. “If you have something you want to do in life don’t think\\x0dabout the problems ” he says “think about other ways to get it done.” 

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1.Why Bobby Moresco did not tell anyone that he\\x0dstarted taking lessons at age 17?

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A. He wanted to give his girlfriend a surprise.

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B. His girlfriend did not allow him to do this.

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C. He was afraid of being laughed at.

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D. He had no talent for acting.

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2.Which of the following sentences is NOT true?

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A. His father did not support his work as a bartender.

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B. Before he became an overnight success his life\\x0dexperienced ups and downs.

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C. His brother’s death inspired his writing\\x0dHalf-Deserted Streets.

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D. Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen which\\x0dis a few blocks east of Broadway.

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3.The Studio executives turned the script Crash down\\x0dbecause ______________.

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A. they thought the script would not be popular.

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B. the script was not well written.

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C. they had no money to make the film based on the\\x0dscript.      

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D. they thought Moresco was not famous.

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4.Which of the following can best describe Bobby\\x0dMoresco?

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A. ambitious and persistent                                                             B.\\x0dshy but hardworking  

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C. caring and brave                                                                                     D.\\x0dconsiderate and modest

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Answer 1