托福寫作名人例子

1、How to act 007 Sea n Connery“My n ame is Bond James Bond, ”ea n Connery in formed the world?s moviegoers in 1962. In seve n Bond films over a spa n of 21 years, the tall, dark Scot came to embody the suave secret age nt whose code n ame was known around the globe: 007.But it didn?t go very smooth to

2、 be a successful star. The exception was Robert Hen ders on, a 47-year-old Yank who directi on South Pacific One day, Hen ders on had a long talk with the muscle man whose determ in ati on seemed irrepressible. Connery told Hen ders on he hoped to become a professi onal soccer player.Well look, ” sa

3、id Henderson. you do? With soccer, at 28 or 30, it? all over. Then what do Wouldn?t you rather be an actor?How? ” askedIleftConnery,school at “13. ”Hen ders on no dded.You?ve practically no educati on. But you have animag in ati on and a min d. I will give you a list of ten books that you should rea

4、d.The “en books ” that Henderson mentioned were more like 200, including the complete works of Shakespeare,Thomas Wolfe and Oscar Wilde. But Connery tackled them every day, appl ying all the en ergy and ten acity he got from his pare nts. He would go to the library and stay there till curtain time.L

5、ate at night, he would sit up with his tape recorder, hearing a voice that certa inly was n?t Polish and was sounding little less Scottish. Act ing, he decided after a year of this, was going to his career. And for his new life, Connery had chose n a new n ame.In 1957, the BBC produced Rod Serl in g

6、?s play Requiem for a heavyweight. The down-and-out prize fighter, Mountain McClintock, was played by a young actor who head boxed in the Royal Navy. His n ame Sea n Conn ery.The same year, Connery was cast in a production of Anna Christie. The title role was played by ash blond Diane Cele nto. She

7、was to become Conn ery?swife a few years later.By the n Connery had appeared in five forgettable filmsbut in one of them, hecaught the eye of Walt Disney, who brought him to the United States in 1958. Disney cast him as Michael McBride, the love in terest in a story about leprecha uns called Darby O

8、?Gil and the little people. In the film?s climax, McBride has a rous ing fistfight with the village bully.Among those who took note of Connery?s screen presenee in Darby was producer Harry Saltzman who, with co-producer Albert R. “Cubby ”Rroccoli, was east ing a film of their won based on Dr. No, th

9、e 1958 no vel by Ian Flem ing.Connery was called to the producer?s London office for an in terview.WeWe kwatcher him bound across the street like Superma n,” said Saltzma n later.we had our Bond. ”But Ian Flem ing, author of the James Bond no vels, had casti ng approval and was harder to persuade. H

10、e?d have lovedhaveto had Cary Grant in the role, but there was n?t eno ugh money for that,”says Conn ery.Sohe was obliged to agree thatI would do it. ”Play it Connery did, and sple ndidlyfive times in all in the 60s, from Dr. No,from Russia with love, Gold fin ger and Thun der ball to You only Live

11、Twice. His deb on air charm and magn etic good looks on scree n captivated audie nces around the globe. Small boys from Chicago to Rome could tell you exactly what 007 said whe n Gold Fin ger threate ned him with a laser:Do you expect me to talk?”No, Mr. Bond . I expect you to die.”But 007 did not d

12、ie. The Bond pictures? success ermittedp Connery to move his wife, their son, Jas on, and his stepdaughter into a tow n house overlook ing London?s Act on Park. He was also able to buy his pare nts a more comfortable home and persuade his father to retire. He also set up Scottish Intern ati onal Edu

13、cati onal Trust with $ 1 milli on, to help un derprivileged Scots go to college.Bill Gates in His BoyhoodAs a child and as an adult as well Bill was un tidy. It has bee n said that in order to coun teract this. Mary drew up weekly clothi ng pla ns for him. On Mon days he might go to school in blue,

14、on Tuesdays in gree n, on Wed nesdays in brow n, onThursdays in black, and so on , Weekend meal schedules might also be planned in detail. Everything time, at work or during his leisure time.Dinner table discussions in the Gate?s family home were always lively and educational.“It was a rich environm

15、ent in which to learn,”Bill remembered.Bill?s contemporaries, even at the age, recognized that he was exceptional. Every year, he and his friends would go to summer camp. Bill especially liked swimming and other sports. One of his summer camp friends recalled,“He was neva nerd or a goof or the kind

16、of kid you didn?t want your team. We all knew Bill was smarter than us. Even back then, when he was nine or ten years old, he talked like an adult and could express himself in ways that none of us understood.”Bill was also well ahead of his classmates in mathematics and science. He needed to go to a

17、 school that challenged him to Lakesidean all-boys? school forexceptional students. It was Seattle?s most exclusive school and was noted for its rigorous academic demands, a place where“even the dumb kids were smart.”Lakeside allowed students to pursue their own interests, to whatever extent they wi

18、shed. The school prided itself on making conditions and facilities available that would enable all its students to reach their full potential . It was the ideal environment for someone like Bill Gates.In 1968, the school made a decision that would change thirteen-year-old Bill Gates?s life and that

19、of many of others, too.Funds were raised, mainly by parents, that enabled the school to gain access to a computer a Program Data processor(PDP) through a teletype machine. Type in a few instructions on the teletype machine and a few seconds later the PDP would type back its response. Bill Gates was

20、immediately hooked so was his best friend at the time, Kent Evans, and another student, Paul Allen, who was two years older than Bill.Whenever they had free time, and sometimeswhen they didn?t, they would dash over to the computer room to use the machine. The students became so singleminded that the

21、y soon overtook their teachers in knowledge about computing and got into a lot of trouble because of their obsession. They were neglecting their other studies every piece of word was handed in late. Classes were cut. Computer time was also proving to be very expensive. Within months, the whole budge

22、t that had been set aside for the year had been used up.At fourteen, Bill was already writing short programs for the computer to perform. Early games programs such as Tic-Tac-Toe, or Noughts and Crosses, and Lunar Landing were written in what was to become Bill?s second language, BASIC.One of the re

23、asons Bill was so good at programming is because it is mathematical and logical. During his time at Lakeside, Bill scored a perfect eight hundred on a mathematics test. It was extremely important to him to get this grade- he had to take the test more than once in order to do it.If Bill Gates was goi

24、ng to be good at something, it was essential to be the best.Bill?s and Paul?s fascination with computers and the business world meant that they read a great deal. Paul enjoyed magazines like Popular Electronics, Computer time was expensive and, because both boys were desperate to get more time and b

25、ecause Bill already had an insight into what they could achieve financially, the two of them decided to set themselves up as a company: The Lakeside Programmers Group. “Let?s call the real world and try to sell something to it!”Bill announceMark Twain in HannibalWhen be wrote The Adventures of Tom S

26、awyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain turned Hannibal, Missouriwhich he later describedas a “white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer?s morninginto an American literary Mecca. No other town in the country has stronger associations with an author, and Twain readily acknowled

27、ged its role in his success.The relationship between Hannibal and Twain began in November 1839, when Twain?s father, John Clemens, decided to leave the hamlet of Florida, Missouri, and move east about 35 miles(56km) to the somewhat larger and more prosperous Hannibal, on the banks of the Mississippi

28、 River. Twain, then known as Samuel Clemens, marked his fourth birthday about a week after the family settled there. He showed little promise of becoming a long-term resident. However, because his health was so poor that his parents probably feared he would not survive childhood.During the family?s

29、first few years in Hannibal, Twain was too young to understand fully the changes going on around him. John Clemens, though trained as alawyer, tried to support his family by running a store and speculating in real estate. When those ventures failed, Clemens was forced to postpone his plans to establ

30、ish a permanent home for the family.About 1843, he began concentrating on the practice of law, a decision that brought some stability to the family finances and enabled him to have a house built. Construction began in 1843, and the family moved into the new house the next year. Situated on Hill Stre

31、et, near the center of town, the modest two-story frame house attracted little attention during the years when the family called it home. The kitchen, dining room and parlor were on the first floor, and three bedrooms, along with a small wardrobe room, were upstairs.About the time the family moved i

32、nto their new home. Twain?s health improved dramatically. Instead of having to lead a quiet indoor life, he could roam the streets of Hannibal. Climb the surrounding hills, explore the area?s caves and splash about in local swimming holes. He reveled in his newfound freedom, spending nearly all his

33、free time playing outdoors with the other boys in town and soon becoming a leader. One member of his gang was Twain?s and became a close friend. Twain?s many comrades also included girls. Across the street lived one named Laura Hawkins, with whom he often flirted.Twain?s carefree days did not last l

34、ong, His father used their house asollateralc for a friend?s loan, and the creditor took possession when the loan failed. A physician who lived diagonally across the street from the family offered to let them live in his home, which was called the Pilaster House because of its decorative columns. Th

35、e Clemens family moved into that house sometime in late 1846. On March 24, 1847, John Clemens died. His wife, Jane Lampton Clemens, and their oldest son, Orion, managed to regain possession of the little house on Hill Street, and the family moved back into it that summer. These events dampened but d

36、id not extinguish Twain?s cheerful disposition.For the next six years, Twain, his brother Henry, and his sister Pamela live with their mother in the family home. Twain began taking odd jobs after school to bring in extra cash. Within a year of his father?s death, he quit school and became an apprent

37、ice printer, and when his brother Orion bought the Hannibal Journal in 1851, Twain went to work for him as a printer and editorial assistant. The stories he wrote for Orion?s paper, his first publications, taught him that he much preferred writing to typesetting. Thus, when he decided to leave Hanni

38、bal in May 1853, he already had an inkling of his future career.My First Time in Philadelphia Benjamin FranklinI walked up the street, gazing about till near the market-house I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker?s he

39、 directed me to, in Second-street, and asked for biscuit, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor

40、the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort.He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls, I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and, having no room in my pockets, walked off with a roll under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market-street as far

41、 as Fourth-street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife?s father; when he, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance. Then I turned and went down Chestnut-street and part of Walnut street, eating my roll all the way, and, c

42、oming round, found myself again at Market-street wharf, near the boat I came in , to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.Thus re

43、freshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean- dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way. I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meeting-house of the Quakers near the market. I sat down among them, and, after looking round awhile and hearing nothin

44、g said, being very drowsy through labor and want of rest the preceding night, I fell fast asleep, andcontinued so till the meeting broke up. When one was kind enough to rouse me, this was, therefore, the first house I was in, or slept in, in Philadelphia.Walking down again toward the river, and, loo

45、king in the faces of people, I met a young Quaker man, whose countenance I liked, and, accosting him requested he would tell me where a stranger could get lodging . We were then near the sign of the Three Mariners.“Here ”, says he“is one place that entertains strangers, but it is not areputable hous

46、e; if thee wilt walk with me, I?ll show thee a better.”He brought mthe Crooked Billet in Water-street. Here I got a dinner; and, while I was eating it, several sly questions were asked me, as it seemed to be suspected form my youth and appearance, that I might be some runaway.After dinner, my sleepi

47、ness returned, and being shown to a bed, I lay down without undressing and slept till six in the evening, was called to supper, went to bed again very early, and slept soundly till next morning. Then I made myself as tidy as I could, and went to Andrew Bradford the printer?s. I found in the shop the

48、 old man his father, whom I had seen at New York, and who, traveling on horseback, had got to Philadelphia before me. He introduced me to his son, who received me civilly, gave me a breakfast, but told me he did not at present want a hand, being lately supplied with one; but there was another printe

49、r in town, lately set up, one Keimer, who, perhaps, might employ me; if not, I should be welcome to lodge at his house, and he would give me a little work to do now and then till fuller business should offer.The old gentleman said he would go with me to the new printer; and when we found him,“Neighb

50、or, ”says Bradford,“I have brought to see you a young man ofyour business; perhaps you may want such a one.”He asked me a few questions, put acomposing stick in my hand to see how I worked, and then said he would employ me soon, though he had just then nothing for me to do?The Rush Hour of Jackie Ch

51、anA hero is being hung down from a helicopter some 200 feet above. As the sun bets down, he swings about. Suddenly, a top needle of a skyscraper is pressing toward him. He fails to dodge and bumps heavily on the concrete needle.heThis stimulating shot impressed in numerous Jackie Chan fans. Now it?s

52、 the “rush hour ”to be repaid for that devotion for him. As an Asia?s favorite action hero, has finally conquered Hollywood. Rush Hour, Chan?s new made-in-America blockbuster, rocketed to the top of the charts on its opening weekend in the United States, winning an unexpected cross-over audience. In

53、 three days, the box-office tally was $33 million the highest weekend gross ever for New Line Cinema. Now in its sixth week in American theatres, the film, directed by Brett Ratner, has so far taken in more than $117 million.Chan had already scored when such films as Rumble in the Bronx and First St

54、rike were released in mainstream theatres in the U. S., and not just in Chinatown and specialty video stores. Now Rush Hour has turned Jackie Chan into a household name the way Enter the Dragon made a legend of Bruce Lee.The bi-racial pairing and good cop/bad cop storyline are predictably formulaic

55、Chan is Chinese and co-star Chris Tucker is black similar to such films as the Lethal Weapon series starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Yet the producers have wisely focused on the strengths of the two stars: Tucker?s hilarious, rapid-fire jive- talk, and Chan?s nimble derring-do in tight spaces a

56、nd high places.The film begins in Hong Kong on the eve of the hand-over as Han, a mainland Chinese diplomat, is dispatched to Los Angeles as consul general. A gangster promptly kidnaps Han?s darling daughter and demands $50 million as ransom.Though the vaunted Federal Bureau of Investigation gets ca

57、lled in, Han sends for his own man from Hong Kong, Lee (Chan), a Hong Kong detective with specialties to Han?s family. The FBI doesn?t like this one bit, and the stereotypical operation chief barks: “This is an FBI assignment, Ianddon?t need and help from the LAPD Los”Angeles Police Department “or s

58、ome Chpngking cop! ”When Lee arrives, LAPD Detective James Carter (Tucker) is assigned to keep him out of the real investigation. The dynamic duo inevitably team up, getting intoone scrape after another. For example, they pursue one suspect through a building, nearly catching up with him until their

59、 collective weight sends them crashing through a rotting bridge.Fortunately, much of the lame storyline is played for laughs. Tucker, an arrogant cop more interested in grabbing glory than in police teamwork, delivers his politically incorrect pronouncements on women, Asians, and anyone else, in a rambling, high- pitched voice. In one of