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 hands. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes (撞击) 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 of even catch fire, are well trained. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks (花招，手段). Here are two sides to their work. They 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 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 training. Often a stuntmen’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 seriously hurt, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, flew over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞) failed to open, and he was killed. Although it is full of deadly dangers, this is no longer the work for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous actions. For nowadays there are stuntwomen too！ (357)

1.Stuntmen are those who ______.

A. often dress up as famous actors   

B. prefer to lead dangerous lives

C. often perform dangerous actions

D. often fight each other for their lives

2.What’s the meaning of the underlined sentences in the first paragraph?

A stuntman should _______.

A. crash bravely though a window made of sugar             

B. do the well-planned activity at a very moment    

C. open his parachute when he jumps down the cliff

D. have got a high degree of skill and training

3.Which could probably the best title of this passage?

A. Fights in the Movies.B. Crashing Out of the Window.

C. Exciting Films Today.D. Most Dangerous Work.

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.D

【解析】

试题分析：这篇文章主要介绍了特技替身演员。他们使用花招和手段。通常他们的成功依赖精确的时间计算。他们的报酬很高，但是特技表演也有危险。他们常常受伤，有时有会死亡。

1.细节理解题。根据Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are well trained. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen.句意：因为从高高的窗户上掉下来，或者从飞驰的火车上跳下来，或者撞车着火的这些人是受过好好训练的。他们这么做是为了生计。这些人叫做特技替身演员。故选C。

2.推理判断题。划线句句意：常常特技演员的成功依赖精确的时间计算。例如：当他在战争场景里被炸飞时，他必须在正确的时间在爆炸中跳起来。可知他们应该在合适的时间做计划好的事。故选B。

3.标题归纳题。这篇文章主要介绍了特技表演这个危险的工作。故选D。

考点：日常生活类短文阅读。