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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
You are watching a film in which two men are having a flight. 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 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. 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 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 had dangerous lives. They often get serious injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff 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 actress have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stunt-girls.
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 of a successful performance?
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A．Strength. B．Exactness.
C．Speed. D．Carefulness.
解析：
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1．C 根据上下文，特别是最后一段可以知识，stuntman是代替演员作危险动作的替身演员。 2．B 因为B项概括了替身演员的职业特点。 3．D 根据第一段的最后一句和第二段的开头两句。 4．B 根据第四段，成功的关键在于时间的准确控制。所以选B项。Exactness意思为“准确性”。 |
