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　　A

　　You are watching a film in which two men areshavingsa fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon hey 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 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 to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress(床垫). A gain, 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 ac- tresses 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. Which of the following is the main factor(因素) of a successful performance?

　　A. Strength

　　B. Exactness.

　　C. Speed.

　　D. Carefulness.

　　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 high.

　　C. Parachutes must be of good quality.

　　D. The cliff is too high.

　　B

　　April 11, 2003 12:44:39 AM PST, Associated Press

　　The respiratory(呼吸的) virus known as SARS has appeared to spread in the United States only to family members of health workers with close contact(接触) to a sick person.

　　On Thursday, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there may be a case of severe acute respiratory syndrome(症状)spreading through the workplace.

　　Dr. Julie Gerberding said a suspected SARS virus patient who became ill after traveling to Asia may have infected a co-worker in Florida, which makes her "very worried".

　　So far, a dozen people-nine family members and three health workers-were infected(感染) after comingsintosclose contact with a person with SARS. The rest of the 166 suspected American cases have something to do with people who were infected while traveling in Asia.

　　In the Gainesville, Fla., area, a 47-year-old woman is believed to have been infected at work by a 60-year-old woman who was the nation s first suspected SARS case, said Tom Belcuore, director of the Alachua County health department.

　　Since the World Health Organization announced a worldwide warning last month about SARS, the United States has started infection control in hospitals and among families of suspected cases.

　　Florida officials said a school in Okaloosa County went through a cleaning after a 6-year-old boy suspected ofshavingsSARS appeared at school with slight symptoms. "Health officials are watching the boys' contacts at school to make sure no one else is infected," said Rob Hayes, health department spokesman. "The boy may have been infected from a family member, " Hayes said, "We immediately became aware of it and had the child sent home. He's staying at home with his family until 10 days after symptoms disappear."

　　The researchers guessed that the virus might have come from animals. However, the scientists have not ruled out the possibility that some other microbe(微生物)might also help make SARS more serious or easier to catch.

　　5.The best title for this passage is .

　　A. A Worldwide Warning

　　B. Possible Spread of SARS at Workplace

　　C. What Is SARS

　　D. Suspected SARS Cases

　　6.The writer wrote this article mainly to .

　　A. discuss the danger of SARS

　　B. report research result about SARS

　　C. inform people of the spread of SARS

　　D. explain to the readers what SARS is

　　7.The underlined phrase "rule out" has the closest meaning to .

　　A. make rules

　　B. have control of

　　C. suggest

　　D. think something not possible

　　8.How many cases of suspected SARS are there in the U.S.A. now according to the passage?

　　A. 178.

　　B. 166.

　　C. 12.

　　D.181.

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