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 (撞擊) 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 (專業(yè)人士). 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 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 a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落傘) 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!
小題1:Stuntmen are those who ______.
A．often dress up as women
B．prefer to lead dangerous lives
C．often perform seemingly (表面上) 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 windowsD．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．Strength.B．Exactness. C．Speed. D．Power.
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

小題1:細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章開頭講述這個人表演的情況從高空落下裝死的情況可知這個工作是有危險性的。而且文章第二段開頭也講了他們的表演危險。
小題2:細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一段的后部分提到特別是But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training.可知他們表演的細節(jié)。所以說他們是靠賣藝為生的。
小題3:細節(jié)題。文章提到Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals (專業(yè)人士)他們是專業(yè)人士，所以一般情況是沒有危險的。
小題4:理解題。根據(jù)第一段最后一句he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment. 可知他們表演要精確，否則不排除有很大的危險性。
小題5:推斷題。根據(jù)上下文可知高空表演時代很大的危險性，做每個動作都必須到位，否則就會出現(xiàn)問題，說明在表演時出現(xiàn)差錯是常有的事。
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