Question

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 catching fire, are professionals（職業）.They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks（騙局）.

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 depend on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful timing（計時）.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 a thousand feet high. His parachute（降落傘）failed to open, and he was killed.

In spite of（盡管）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____________

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___________

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,___________

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?

A．Strength          B．Exactness          C．Speed            D．Carefulness

5.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.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.B

5.A  

【解析】

試題分析：文章介紹了替身演員這個工作，特技演員并不是僅僅依靠trick（伎倆、把戲）來完成工作，還有技能和訓練。

1.細節題：對于Stuntman（特技替身演員）的解釋出現在文章第1段的開頭舉例之后，有關鍵字professional, do this for a living而判定為B選項。

2.細節題：根據Stuntman這類人的定義可知替身是出賣他們的特殊技能。A選項曲解了特技演員的謀生手段，而CD兩項范圍過小而排除。選B。

3.細節題：從第三段的內容，強調演員的生命安全是受保護的。 A項錯在little的表述， little表示否定含義“幾近沒有”，與原文不符， B項錯在是演員落下的地面上覆蓋著床墊，而非演員被覆蓋著床墊， C項與原文不符， 選D。

4.細節題：從第4段關鍵轉折詞： BUT。后面解釋了特技演員并不是僅僅依靠trick（伎倆、把戲）來完成工作，還有技能和訓練。以及一個關鍵短語depend on直指答案的出現為careful timing

，仔細謹慎的（把握）時機，與B選項Exactness（精準）相符。 

5.排除題：CD選項很容易即被排除，而B選項是文中沒有提到的關于意外發生比例的問題。選A。

考點：考查社會現象類短文

點評：本文細節題居多，答題時在文章找到對應的地方，用筆進行標記，這有利于后期有時間檢查時可以立刻找到答案的位置。仔細理解作者所講的意思，再結合選項，通過排除法和自己對全文的把握，選出正確答案。