You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only ___41____ 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___42___  dead. With any luck he isn't even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from ___43___moving trains, who crash cars of even ___44___ fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called ___45___. 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 ___46___ on to hard ground but on to 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 ____47__. Often a stuntman' s 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 they lead dangerous lives. They often get ___48___ 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 ___49___ for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stuntgirls, too.

A blazing wildfire in Nevada has finally started to cool down. Firefighters have about 30 percent of the 7,200-acre fire under control.

"I think it's done its worst, I really think it has," said the fire-incident commander, Marty Scheuerman. "Now we can do our job."

The fire started on Wednesday and spread as high winds and dry air fueled the flames. Some flames reached as high as 100 feet. Although the cause of the fire is unknown, some officials suspect teenagers may have started it. Homes were destroyed, and the fire even came within a half mile of the Governor's house.

In the neighboring state of California, wildfire season got off to an early start. Five fires from four Southern California counties have already destroyed thousands of acres of land. Temperatures over 100 degrees and dry land aren't helping the situation. But slightly cooler weekend temperatures could give firefighters a break.

In Lake Hughes, a small community, residents(居民) help each other out when they see the first sign of smoke. "The minute a cloud of smoke starts anywhere in the area, that's when we start getting the phone calls," said a store owner, Linda Martin. "This is a pretty close community. Information travels very quickly, and if there's someone in distress or need, everyone's there."

So far this year, wildfires have burned 3.7 million acres in the nation. That's about three times more than this time last year.

64. ________ cause wildfires to spread.

A. Teenagers and some officials

B. High temperatures and wet lands

C. Firefighters' break and cooler weekends

D. High winds and dry air

65. What condition makes wildfires easier to control?

A. Wet climate. B. High winds. C. Dry air. D. High temperatures.

66. The passage suggests that ________.

A. Lake Hughes has already been destroyed because it is pretty close to the wildfire

B. Lake Hughes has kept safe from the wildfire because people there show close concern for it

C. wildfires spread very quickly in Lake Hughes and the people there try to fight against them

D. wildfires in Lake Hughes are difficult to control because the people there aren't very helpful

67. It can be concluded that ________.

A. the weather in Nevada and California may be drier than it has ever been for this time of year

B. the wildfire in Nevada has completely been put out because of the cool weather

C. wildfires this year have resulted in the loss of 3.7 million dollars in the U.S.

D. last year could be the worst fire year that has been seen in the U.S. history

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A．Starting　　　　B．Started

C．To start　　　　D．To be started

“I had a test and didn’t want to do it, so I pretended to be ill”, says 13-year-old Mary. But Mary did not enjoy her day off. “It was boring. I wished I had gone to school.”
Mary’s story is not unusual in Britain. According to the latest government figures, pupil absences are rising, despite schools taking a hard line on truancy (逃学).
Dr Philip James from Cardiff University thinks she knows why: “As schools make more efforts to find and punish missing students, students find better ways to avoid being caught.”
For several years, James has researched teenager truancy and discovered that most truancy was “a response to factors within the school”. Students that skip school are not necessarily less advanced or less intelligent. They complained of teachers who failed to engage them, and of “boring” lessons. “Many of them really enjoy school and believe in education, but drop out when aspects of it are ineffective.” James says.
The views of students like Adam, who believes that skipping lessons has little impact on his schooling, are common. “I only take off for a lesson, or a couple of days. It doesn’t affect my education,” he told James.
James believes that schools need to address the question of why pupils want to leave in the first place. “Pupils need help from the start.” she says. “Schools need to look at the reasons for truancy rather than the number, so that instead of walking away from school, students have the skills and chances to talk through problems and make a change.”
【小题1】What is one of the reasons that many students skip school according to James’ study?

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Tayka Hotel De Sal Where: Tahua, Bolivia            How much: About $95 a night Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt---including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses (床垫) and blankets). The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- Green Magic Nature Resort Where: Vythiri, India             How much: About $240 a night Why it’s cool: Taking a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window---there is no glass!---you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy(罩蓬). Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don’t even have to come down for breakfast---the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- Dog Bark Park Inn B&B Where: Cottonwood, Idaho          How much: $92 a night Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side．You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft(阁楼）in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant (消防栓）outside. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- Gamirasu Cave Hotel Where: Ayvali, Turkey             How much: Between $130 and $475 a night. Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer. (Don’t worry---there is heat in winter.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- Treebones Resort Where: California, America         How much: $100 a night Why it’s cool: You can sleep in a “room” any night, but how often do you get the chance to sleep in a yurt. What’s a yurt? Good question. Yurts are the name given to guest rooms at the Treebones Resort. These spaces provide all of the accessibility to nature you’d enjoy in a tent, but with all the comforts of a cabin. In one of sixteen yurts, you will doze off(打盹儿) while gazing at the stars that can be seen through a sky dome.