题目内容
阅读理解
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 of even 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 the 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!
1.Stuntmen are those who __________.
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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
2.Stuntmen earn their living by __________.
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A.playing their dirty tricks
B.selling their special skills
C.jumping out of high windows
D.jumping from fast moving trains
3.When a stuntman falls from a high building, __________.
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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
4.Which of the following is the main factor (因素) of a successful performance?
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A.Strength.
B.Exactness.
C.Speed.
D.Carefulness.
5.What can be inferred from the author's example of the Norwegian stuntman?
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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.
阅读理解
New York , May 25?
Millions of volunteers (志愿者)joined in a long chain spreading 4 125 miles across the world's richest nation Sunday and burst into songs , reaching the highest
development in the Hands Across America road to raise
50 million for the nation's homeless and hungry.
The chain began with a 6-year-old homeless girl named Amy in New York's Buttery Park. It spread across 16 states and Washington, D.C. where it crossed the White House to the Queen Mary's port in California. The last people in the line were Bill and Mary Jones and their five small children, who lived in a family shelter (收容所) for the homeless in Venice, California.
The chain was not unbroken some gaps were planned for safety, others opened where there were not enough people to cover the ground. But along most of the route, the healthy joined the sick, beautiful film stars , homeless beggars , wealthy artists , poor children and President and Mrs Regan all took places in the long line.
1.What is the main idea of the passage?
[ ]
A.Millions of volunteers support the poor.
B.The longest line is waiting for support.
C.The homeless and poor need help.
D.The richest nation faces the problem.
2.The underlined word “raise” in the first paragraph means _______.
[ ]
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A.try to lift |
B.manage to collect |
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C.bring up |
D.join up |
3.From the article, we know that the volunteers were made up of ________.
[ ]
A.both the homeless and the poor
B.the government officials, including President Regan
C.people in every field
D.people of 16 states except Amy
4.What do you think of the people in the chain spreading 4 125 miles?
[ ]
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A.They were hand in hand. |
B.They were in good order. |
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C.They were troublesome. |
D.They were planned for safety. |
5.Although the United States is a developed country, ________.
[ ]
A.there is still a rebellion sometimes.
B.there is still many people waiting for jobs
C.there are still some family shelters
D.there are still many social problems to be solved.
阅读理解
New York , May 25?
Millions of volunteers (志愿者)joined in a long chain spreading 4 125 miles across the world's richest nation Sunday and burst into songs , reaching the highest
development in the Hands Across America road to raise
50 million for the nation's homeless and hungry.
The chain began with a 6-year-old homeless girl named Amy in New York's Buttery Park. It spread across 16 states and Washington, D.C. where it crossed the White House to the Queen Mary's port in California. The last people in the line were Bill and Mary Jones and their five small children, who lived in a family shelter (收容所) for the homeless in Venice, California.
The chain was not unbroken some gaps were planned for safety, others opened where there were not enough people to cover the ground. But along most of the route, the healthy joined the sick, beautiful film stars , homeless beggars , wealthy artists , poor children and President and Mrs Regan all took places in the long line.
1.What is the main idea of the passage?
[ ]
A.Millions of volunteers support the poor.
B.The longest line is waiting for support.
C.The homeless and poor need help.
D.The richest nation faces the problem.
2.The underlined word “raise” in the first paragraph means _______.
[ ]
|
A.try to lift |
B.manage to collect |
|
C.bring up |
D.join up |
3.From the article, we know that the volunteers were made up of ________.
[ ]
A.both the homeless and the poor
B.the government officials, including President Regan
C.people in every field
D.people of 16 states except Amy
4.What do you think of the people in the chain spreading 4 125 miles?
[ ]
|
A.They were hand in hand. |
B.They were in good order. |
|
C.They were troublesome. |
D.They were planned for safety. |
5.Although the United States is a developed country, ________.
[ ]
A.there is still a rebellion sometimes.
B.there is still many people waiting for jobs
C.there are still some family shelters
D.there are still many social problems to be solved.
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