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 (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 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 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 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 seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) 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 stuntgirls too.

1.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

2.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

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

A. Strength.B. Exactness.C. Speed.D. Carefulness.

4.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.B

2.D

3.B

4.A

【解析】

试题分析: 本文告诉我们在电影里的一些危险的镜头或者动作都是由替身演员来完成的，同时告诉我们替身演员的一些情况以及他们在工作中可能遇见的危险，并举例进行了说明。

1.B 细节理解题。根据第一段中it also requires a high degree of skill and training可知，做替身需要有很高的技巧和训练，所以他们是出卖他们的特殊技能，故选B项。

2.D 细节理解题。根据第一段提到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).可知，他们从高楼上跳下是跳在床垫上，所以虽然他们的工作很危险，但他们的安全通常都是得到保障的，故选D项。

3.B 细节理解题。根据第一段中Often a stuntman' s success depends on careful timing.可知，一个成功的表演最主要的因素是时间，即精确性，故选B项。

4.A 推理判断题。在讲挪威替身的事情之前先说了Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed.（自然替身报酬很好，但他们过着危险的生活。他们经常受严重的伤，有时候甚至被杀），故举挪威替身死亡的例子是为了证明“替身有时候会发生事故”，故选A项。

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