甘肃（平凉市）2017高考英语一轮阅读理解精选精练（共10份）及参考答案

甘肃（平凉市）2017高考英语一轮阅读理解精选精练及参考答案 [人物型阅读理解] Bobby Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a tough working class neighbourhood 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 neighbourhood, you became a cop, construction worker, longshoreman or criminal.Not an actor. Moresco strugg led 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 Hol lywood, 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 a 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 neighbourhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain and the patrimony(遗产) of Hell's Kitchen.Half Deserted Streets, based on his brother's killing, opened at a small off Broadway theatre in 1988.A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to work on a screenplay. His reputation gre w, 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 (竭力推销) 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 s trongly in the script that he borrowed money and 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 i nto the theatres 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 More sco 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.” 1．Rearrange the following statements in terms of time order： a. His work Half Deserted Streets drew attention as it opened at a small off Broadway theatre. 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 ... ...