单选题 Passage One Born on July 9,1956, in Concord, California, Tom Hanks' parents divorced when he was 5 years old, and he was raised, along with his older brother and sister, by his father, a chef named Amos. The family moved frequently, finally settling in Oakland, California, where Hanks attended high school. After graduating in 1974, Hanks attended junior college in Hayward, California. He decided to pursue acting after reading and watching a performance of Eugene 0'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, and transferred to the theater program at California State University in Sacramento. In 1977, Hanks was recruited to take part in the summer session of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Lakewood, Ohio. Over the next three years, Hanks spent his summers acting in various productions of Shakespeare's plays, and his winters working backstage at a community theater company in Sacramento. He won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in 1978, for his portrayal of Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Hanks later landed the lead role in Howard's Splash,as a man who falls in love with a mermaid, played by Daryl Hannah. The movie,released in 1984,became a surprise hit, and Hanks was suddenly a recognizable face. He went on to star in many popular and acclaimed films and is now arguably the most powerful and well-respected actor in Hollywood. Tom Hanks decided to learn acting because_______