Unit 4 body language reading课时作业

Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　(2018·陕西西安中学第四次检测)

　　Dickie Moore,a child star of the 1930s,who appeared in the Our Gang comedies and was featured in many major Hollywood productions,has died.He was 89.

　　While not as famous as Shirley Temple or Mickey Rooney,successful child actors in the history of film,Moore was a veteran(经验丰富的人) of dozens of films,many of which were directed by such greats as Cecil B.DeMille,Ernst Lubitsch and Josef von Sternberg.He also wrote a book about the child star business.

　　He was a member of producer Hal Roach's Our Gang troupe(团队) in 1932 and 1933,playing alongside Spanky McFarland,Stymie Beard and other Our Gang stars in such short films as Free Wheeling,Hook and Ladder and Mush and Milk.But unlike Spanky and other Our Gang stars,Moore wasn't limited to Roach's comedies.

　　The handsome actor was Marlene Dietrich's little boy in her 1932 film Blonde Venus.He recalled her as "warm and friendly",but said it made him uncomfortable when she gave him a bath.That same year he played the leading lady's little brother in Million Dollar Legs,and in the following year he got the title role in a version of Oliver Twist.He was also the war hero Alvin York's brother in Sgt.York,the boy that Louis Pasteur cured of rabies(狂犬病) in The Story of Louis Pasteur and heroine Barbara Stanwyck's young son in So Big.

　　In 1942,toward the end of his child star career,he gave Shirley Temple his first onscreen kiss in Miss Annie Rooney.As a young man,he had a role in the 1947 classic film Out of the Past,which starred Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum.He stopped acting by the 1950s.In the late 1960s,he founded his own public relations firm,Dick Moore Associates,in New York.

1.What did Dickie Moore,Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney have in common?

A.They all wrote books.

B.They were all child stars.

C.They all later founded firms

D.They all starred in Our Gang.

2.Different from other Our Gang stars,Dickie Moore 　　　.

A.had a gift for playing comedies

B.really loved the child star business

C.appeared in other producers' films

D.knew what kind of roles he wanted

3.In which film did Dickie Moore play the leading role according to the text?

A.Oliver Twist. B.Blonde Venus.

C.Out of the Past. D.Miss Annie Rooney.

Ⅱ.完形填空

　　(2018·山东枣庄八中期中检测)

My young friend,David,has a problem.His parents 　1　 when he was little.He and his brother lived with his mother in Kenya,where she worked hard to 　2　 them,with little help from their father.