2017届重庆市高考英语一轮复习阅读理解选编精练：33（含解析）_高考复习指南

2017届重庆市高考英语一轮复习阅读理解选编精练：33（含解析）

　　Moresco struggled to make that long walk a few blocks east.He studied acting，turned out for all the cattle calls(试戏通知)—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 Hollywood，where he drove a cab and worked as a bartender(酒吧侍者)．His father said，“Stop this craziness and get a job; you have a wife and daughter.” But Moresco kept working at his chosen craft.

　　Then in 1983 his young brother Thomas was murdered in a mob－linked killing.Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain and the patrimony 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 grew，and he got enough assignment 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 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 strongly in the script that he borrowed money，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.