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Dick Moore, a child star of the 1930s, who appeared in the Our Gang series and was featured in many major Hollywood productions, has passed away. He was 89.

While not as famous as Shirley Temple or Mickey Rooney, Moore was a veteran(老手) of dozens of films, many of those top-drawer productions 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(班子) in 1932 and 1933, playing alongside Spanky McFarland, Stymie Beard and other Our Gang stars in such shorts 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 saying 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.

Among his many other roles were Julius Reuter as a boy in A Dispatch from Reuter's, 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 Temple her first screen kiss in Miss Annie Rooney. As a young man, he had a featured role in the 1947 classic film Out of the Past, which starred Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum. As his film career waned, he appeared in television shows such as Captain Video and His Video Rangers.

1.What do Dick Moore, Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney have in common?

A They all wrote a book.

B They were all child stars.

C They all starred in Our Gang.

D They all later appeared in television shows.

解析：选B。推理判断题。根据第一段中的Dick Moore, a child star of the 1930s以及第二段中的While not as famous as Shirley Temple or Mickey Rooney可推知，他们三人都曾经是童星。

2.Different from Spanky and other Our Gang stars, Dick Moore _____.

A had a gift for funny roles

B really loved the child star business

C knew what kind of roles he wanted

D didn't just appear in Roach's comedies

解析：选D。细节理解题。根据第三段中的But unlike Spanky and other Our Gang stars, Moore wasn't limited to Roach's comedies可知，Dick Moore并不只出现在Roach的喜剧中。

3.What do Paragraph 4 and Paragraph 5 mainly tell us about Dick Moore?

A His most famous movies.

B Some of his roles in movies.

C His achievements in the1940s.

D The actors he had worked with.

解析：选B。段落大意题。根据第四、五段的内容可知，这两段主要介绍了Dick Moore在电影中的一些角色。

4.Which of the following movies starring Dick Moore came out later than the other three?

A So Big.

B Blonde Venus.

C Free Wheeling.

D Out of the Past.

解析：选D。细节理解题。根据末段中的As a young man, he had a featured role in the 1947 classic film Out of the Past可知，这部电影是Dick Moore成年后拍的，而在其他三部影片中他还是个童星。

5.The underlined word “waned” in the last paragraph means “______”.

A declined

B improved

C began

D paused

解析：选A。词义猜测题。根据此句的he appeared in television shows可知他的电影事业在下滑，因此答案A是最佳答案。