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（拳头）. 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 catch fire, are professionals（专业人士）. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen（替身演员）. 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（时间测量）. 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（悬崖）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 actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stunt-girls too!
【小题1】Stuntmen are those who A．often dress up as actorsB．prefer to lead dangerous livesC．often perform seemingly dangerous actionsD．often fight each other for their lives【小题2】Stuntmen earn their living by A．playing their dirty tricksB．selling their special skillsC．jumping out of high windowsD．jumping from fast moving trains【小题3】Usually when a stuntman falls from a high building A．he needs little protectionB．he will be covered with a mattressC．his life is endangeredD．his safety is generally all right【小题4】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 highC．Parachutes must be of good quality.D．The cliff is too high.C
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(答案→)C
解析：本文告诉我们在电影里的一些危险的镜头或者动作都是由替身演员来完成的，同时告诉我们替身演员的一些情况以及他们在工作中可能遇见的危险，并举例进行了说明。
【小题1】C 推理题。根据文章第二段Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals（专业人士）. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen（替身演员）. That is to say, they perform tricks.可知替身演员通常都在做一些很危险的动作。故C正确。
【小题2】B 推理题。根据文章第二段2,3行Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals（专业人士）. They do this for a living.以及第四段1,2行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（时间测量）.可知他们做的这些动作都是很危险的，但是他们有自己的特殊的技能。故B正确。
【小题3】D 推理题。根据文章第三段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!可知虽然他们的动作很危险，但是他们的安全通常都是得到保障的。故D正确。
【小题4】A 推理题。根据文章倒数第二段Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed.可知这样的工作也总是充满危险，有时候也会发生事故。故A正确。