Question

You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight.They hit one another hard.At the start they only fight with their fists.But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs.And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below.He is dead!

Of course he isn’t really dead.With any luck he isn’t even hurt.Why？Because 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 a living.These men are called stuntmen.That is to say，they perform tricks.

There are two sides to their work.They actually do most of the things you see on the screen.For example，they fall from a high building.However，they do not fall on to hard ground but onto empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress(床垫)．Again，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!

But although their work depends on trick of this sort，it also requires a high degree of skill and training.Often a stuntman’s(特技表演者的) success depends on careful timing.For example，when he is “blown up” in a battle scene，he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.

Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work，but theylead dangerous lives.They often get seriously injured，and sometimes killed.A Norwegian stuntman，for example，skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high.His parachute(降落伞) failed to open，and he was killed.

In spite of all the risks，this is no longer a profession for men only.Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action.For nowadays there are stunt?girls too!

1．Stuntmen are those who ________.

A．often dress up as actors

B．prefer to lead dangerous lives

C．often perform seemingly dangerous actions

D．often fight each other for their lives

2．Stuntmen earn their living by ________.

A．playing their dirty tricks

B．selling their special skills

C．jumping out of high windows

D．jumping from fast?moving trains

3．When a stuntman falls from a high building，________.

A．he needs little protection

B．he will be covered with a mattress

C．his life is endangered

D．his safety is generally all right

4．Which of the following is the main factor(因素) of a successful performance?

A．Strength. B．Exactness.

C．Speed. D．Carefulness.

5．What can be inferred from the author’s example of the Norwegian stuntman?

A．Sometimes an accident can occur to a stuntman.

B．The percentage of serious accidents is high.

C．Parachutes must be of good quality.

D．The cliff is too high.

 

Answer 1

1. 答案　C

解析　细节理解题。由文章不难看出，stuntmen是替身演员，他们所从事的工作是有危险性的。倒数第二段很清楚地提到了这一点。

 

2. 答案　B

解析　细节理解题。第四段告诉我们，替身演员也需要很多的技巧和训练，他们就是靠自己的技能赚钱，所以应选B项。

 

3. 答案　D

解析　推理判断题。从第二段可以得出答案。

 

4答案　B

解析　细节理解题。从第四段中“Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful timing.”一句可知，答案为B项。

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5.答案　A

解析　细节理解题。从那个挪威替身演员的遭遇中可以很容易地推断出这一点。