课时作业(二十三) [必修5 Unit 3 Life in the future]
(限时：30分钟)
Ⅰ.完形填空
Playwright Bertolt Brecht, known for The Threepenny Opera, once said, “From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people…it needs no other passport than fun.” My mother would have __1__. She didn't know Brecht, but she always said the __2__ should be to entertain people, and make them __3__ hard.
Born in 1910, my mother was the first director I ever met. Even from a young age she was an entertainer who thought performing was not just a hobby or even a profession but a way of living that was as __4__ as breathing or eating.
When I __5__ and moved to Hollywood as an adult, I would later create 14 primetime TV shows and __6__ 17 movies. During my five decades in show business, I never forgot my mother's advice to find the humor in __7__. I never wanted to __8__ the world. I wanted to entertain the world and not put people to sleep. If my mom had been born at a(n) __9__ time in history she might have become a stage actress or a performer herself. Instead, she groomed my two sisters, Penny
