You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another  16 . At the start they only fight with their hands, but soon they begin  17  one another over the heads with chairs. It goes on until one of the men crashes (猛撞) through a window, and  18 thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead! Of course, he isn’t really  19 . With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why?  20  the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast-moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for  21  . These men are  22  “stuntmen” (特技演员). That is to  23 , they perform “tricks”.

There are two sides to their work. They  24  do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall  25  a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground  26  on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress (垫子).  27 , 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  28  . Although their work depends on tricks of this kind, it calls for a  29  degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on exact  30  . For example, when he is “blown up” in a battle screen, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.

   Naturally stuntmen are  31  paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously hurt, and sometimes  32 . A Norwegian stuntmen, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞)  33  to open, and he was killed. In spite of (不管) all the risks, this is  34  a profession for “men only”. Men no longer dress up  35  women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. Nowadays there are “stunt girls” too!

16. A. hardly        B. slowly      C. hard       D. lightly

17. A. hitting       B. delivering     C. shouting    D. firing

18. A. falls        B. stands     C. sleeps     D. sits

19. A. hurt       B. weak      C. angry           D. dead

20. A. For        B. Because        C. Since       D. Unless

21. A. work       B. fun        C. a living      D interest

22. A. called       B. chosen      C. considered     D. made

23. A. speak       B. say        C. talk      D. tell

24. A. carefully      B. sadly       C. actually      D. suddenly

25. A. out from      B. out          C. outside      D. from

26. A. but         B. while       C. or        D. and

27. A. Therefore     B. Again       C. Yet        D. Still

28. A. wood       B. paper       C. sticks      D. sugar

29. A. low      B. usual     C. high        D. common

30. A. skill        B. training      C. timing      D. practising

31. A. high        B. well       C. fairly     D. poorly

32. A. killed       B. broken         C. wounded     D. hurt

33. A. ought          B. had        C. failed       D. used

34. A. always       B. no longer      C. even       D. only

35. A. by         B. with        C. as        D. through

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