Question

    You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard．At the   1   they only fight with their hands, but soon they begin   2   one another over the heads with chairs. It goes on until one of the men crashes (猛撞) through a window, and   3   thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead!

    Of course he isn’t really   4   . With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why?   5   the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast - moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for   6   These men are   7   “stuntmen” (特技演员). That is to   8   , they perform “tricks”.

    There are two   9   to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall   10    a high building. However, they do not fall on the hard ground   11   on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress (垫子).   12   when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the “glass” is made of sugar.

    Although their work depends on tricks of this sort, it also requires a   13  degree of skill and training. Often a   14   success depends on exact timing. For example, when he is “blown up” in a battle scene, he has to   15   out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.

　　 Naturally stuntmen are   16   paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously hurt, and sometimes   17   A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) a thousand feet high. His parachute(降落伞)   18   to open, and he was killed.

　　 In spite of (不管) all the risks, this is   19   a profession for “men only”. Men no longer dress up   20   woman when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. Nowadays there are “stuntgirls” too !

1. A．end

B．start

C．least

D．most

2. A．delivering

B．shouting

C．hitting

D．firing

3. A．falls

B．stands

C．sleeps

D．sits

4. A．ill

B．dead

C．hurt

D．angry

5. A．Because

B．While

C．Though

D．Unless

6. A．some reading

B．a living

C．some shopping

D．swimming

7. A．called

B．chosen

C．considered

D．made

8. A．speak

B．say

C．talk

D．tell

9. A．sides

B．examples

C．pictures

D．forms

10. A．to

B．on

C．from

D．over

11. A．but

B．also

C．for

D．and

12. A．Therefore

B．Again

C．Yet

D．Still

13. A．low

B．high

C．usual

D．common

14. A．stuntmen’s

B．workers’

C．women’s

D．policemen’

15. A．break

B．jump

C．take

D．sell

16. A．hardly

B．fairly

C．well

D．poorly

17. A．killed

B．wounded

C．broken

D．mistaken

18. A．ought

B．had

C．failed

D．tried

19. A．no longer

B．always

C．even

D．only

20. A．by

B．with

C．as

D．through

 

Answer 1

答案：B;C;A;B;A;B;A;B;A;C;A;B;B;A;B;C;A;C;A;C
提示：

1.　　   at start=at first在开始的时候，at least至少，at most至多均不符合句意，而at end从下文就可以看出是相反的 2.　　   从上下文的意思自然是选择hit打 3.　　   fall to the ground，摔到地上 4.　　   上文说他已经死了，接下来说的自然是他其实并未真正死亡 5.　　   用because来回答why的问题 6.　　   for a living为了谋生，特技演员做这份工作是为了谋生 7.　　   be called被称为 8.　　   that is to say，固定词组，意思是“也就是说” 9.　　   从下文可以看出，文章举的是两个例子，选择example 10.   fall from从高楼上摔下来 11.   but这里的意思不是但是，表示“而是”，他们不是掉在地面，而是掉在垫子上 12.   again表示再次举一个例子 13.   从句意来看，尽管不是这些事情都不是真的，但也不是人人可做，需要的自然是很高的技术，选择high 14.   这题最简单，讲到的是特技演员，自然选择他 15.   jump out of跳出 16.   做这样危险的工作，报酬应该是很高的，而且从下文也能看出，well-paid报酬很高 17.   两句话是意思的递进，前面说到受伤，比受伤更厉害的就只有死亡了 18.   fail to do没能做到，降落伞没能打开，所以死亡 19.   从下文看，已经有女特技演员了，所以no longer不再，已经不再是男性的专利了 20.   dress up as装扮成