题目内容
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A. guarantee B. feast C. itch D dip
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 and run out of them even when they 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.
【小题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 |
| A.playing their dirty tricks | B.selling their special skills |
| C.jumping out of high windows | D.jumping from fast moving trains |
| 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 |
| A.Strength. | B.Exactness. | C.Speed. | D.Carefulness |
| 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. |
When a rather dirty, poorly dressed person kneels at your feet and puts out his hands to beg for a few coins, do you hurry on, not knowing what to do, or do you feel sad and hurriedly hand over some money? What should our attitude to beggars be? There can be no question that the world is full of terribly sad stories. It must be terrible to have no idea where our next meal is going to come from. It seems cruel not to give some money to beggars.
Certainly, most of the world’s great religions order us to be open-hearted and share what we have with those less fortunate than ourselves. But has the world changed? Maybe what was morally(道德方面)right in the old days, when one knew exactly who in the village had suffered misfortune and needed help, is no longer the best idea. Quite a few people will not give to beggars. Let us look at their arguments.
First, some believe that many city beggars dress up on purpose to look pitiable and actually make a good living from begging. Giving to beggars only encourages this sort of evil(恶行).
Secondly, there is the worry that the money you give will be spent on beer, wine or drugs.
Thirdly, there is the opinion that there is no real excuse for begging. One might be poor, but that is no reason for losing one’s sense of pride and self-dependence.
There is an opinion that the problem should be dealt with by the government rather than ordinary people. Some people think the local government department should help the beggars
It is hard to come to any final conclusion: there are various cases and we must deal with them differently. A few coins can save a life in some situations, and even if the money is wasted, that does not take away the moral goodness of the giver.
【小题1】What is mainly discussed in the passage?
| A.Moral deeds of people. |
| B.Arguments on giving to beggars. |
| C.Moral goodness of the giver. |
| D.Religious activities of the church. |
| A.People no longer know who suffers misfortune in the village. |
| B.Some people will not do what was morally right in the past. |
| C.We don’t meet with those who need help any more. |
| D.Now it is the government’s duty to help the beggars. |
| A.Some people dress up to pretend to be beggars. |
| B.Some beggars have no excuse for begging. |
| C.Some beggars use the money to buy drugs. |
| D.Some beggars need money for their children’s schooling. |
| A.there is so much money wasted |
| B.there are so many beggars |
| C.the cases can be so different |
| D.there are so many different arguments |