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（拳頭）.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 of even catching fire, are professionals（職業(yè)）.They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks（騙局）.
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（床墊）. 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 depend on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful timing（計(jì)時(shí)）.For example, when he is “blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion（爆炸）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 a thousand feet high. His parachute（降落傘）failed to open, and he was killed.
In spite of（盡管）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!
小題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
小題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
小題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
小題4:Which of the following is the main factor(因素) of a successful performance?
A．StrengthB．ExactnessC．SpeedD．Carefulness
小題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.

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:B
小題5:A  

試題分析：文章介紹了替身演員這個(gè)工作，特技演員并不是僅僅依靠trick（伎倆、把戲）來(lái)完成工作，還有技能和訓(xùn)練。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：對(duì)于Stuntman（特技替身演員）的解釋出現(xiàn)在文章第1段的開(kāi)頭舉例之后，有關(guān)鍵字professional, do this for a living而判定為B選項(xiàng)。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)Stuntman這類人的定義可知替身是出賣他們的特殊技能。A選項(xiàng)曲解了特技演員的謀生手段，而CD兩項(xiàng)范圍過(guò)小而排除。選B。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第三段的內(nèi)容，強(qiáng)調(diào)演員的生命安全是受保護(hù)的。 A項(xiàng)錯(cuò)在little的表述， little表示否定含義“幾近沒(méi)有”，與原文不符， B項(xiàng)錯(cuò)在是演員落下的地面上覆蓋著床墊，而非演員被覆蓋著床墊， C項(xiàng)與原文不符， 選D。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第4段關(guān)鍵轉(zhuǎn)折詞： BUT。后面解釋了特技演員并不是僅僅依靠trick（伎倆、把戲）來(lái)完成工作，還有技能和訓(xùn)練。以及一個(gè)關(guān)鍵短語(yǔ)depend on直指答案的出現(xiàn)為careful timing
，仔細(xì)謹(jǐn)慎的（把握）時(shí)機(jī)，與B選項(xiàng)Exactness（精準(zhǔn)）相符。 
小題5:排除題：CD選項(xiàng)很容易即被排除，而B(niǎo)選項(xiàng)是文中沒(méi)有提到的關(guān)于意外發(fā)生比例的問(wèn)題。選A。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文細(xì)節(jié)題居多，答題時(shí)在文章找到對(duì)應(yīng)的地方，用筆進(jìn)行標(biāo)記，這有利于后期有時(shí)間檢查時(shí)可以立刻找到答案的位置。仔細(xì)理解作者所講的意思，再結(jié)合選項(xiàng)，通過(guò)排除法和自己對(duì)全文的把握，選出正確答案。
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小題2:The underlined word “futile” (in paragraph 2) most probably means “        “.     
A．uselessB．practicalC．workableD．unnecessary
小題3:Why do many English-speaking countries not support the language protection efforts described in the passage?
A．They think language protection laws are ineffective.
B．They want their language to spread to other countries.
C．They have a long history of taking words from other languages.
D．It reduces a language’s ability to acquire international importance.
小題4:What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．English has taken over fields like public communication and education.
B．Europeans have long realized the need to protect their national languages.
C．Most language experts believe it is important to promote a national language.
D．Many aspects of national culture are threatened by the spread of English.
小題5:The main idea of the passage is       .  
A．Fighting against the rule of English
B．Globalization and multi-language trends
C．Protecting local languages and identities
D．To maintain the purity of language by law

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