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 catch fire, are professionals（專業(yè)人士）. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen（替身演員）. 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（時(shí)間測(cè)量）. 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（懸崖）a thousand feet high. His parachute 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 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】Usually 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】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】A

解析試題分析：本文告訴我們?cè)陔娪袄锏囊恍┪ｋU(xiǎn)的鏡頭或者動(dòng)作都是由替身演員來(lái)完成的，同時(shí)告訴我們替身演員的一些情況以及他們?cè)诠ぷ髦锌赡苡鲆?jiàn)的危險(xiǎn)，并舉例進(jìn)行了說(shuō)明。
【小題1】C 推理題。根據(jù)文章第二段Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals（專業(yè)人士）. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen（替身演員）. That is to say, they perform tricks.可知替身演員通常都在做一些很危險(xiǎn)的動(dòng)作。故C正確。
【小題2】B 推理題。根據(jù)文章第二段2,3行Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals（專業(yè)人士）. They do this for a living.以及第四段1,2行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（時(shí)間測(cè)量）.可知他們做的這些動(dòng)作都是很危險(xiǎn)的，但是他們有自己的特殊的技能。故B正確。
【小題3】D 推理題。根據(jù)文章第三段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!可知雖然他們的動(dòng)作很危險(xiǎn)，但是他們的安全通常都是得到保障的。故D正確。
【小題4】A 推理題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed.可知這樣的工作也總是充滿危險(xiǎn)，有時(shí)候也會(huì)發(fā)生事故。故A正確。
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