You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. At first they hit each other hard. But soon they begin knocking the other’s head with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window－and falls thirty feet down to the ground below. He is dead!
Of course he isn’t 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 onto hard ground but onto empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. 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 tricks of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on precise 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 serious injured－ and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff 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 “man only”. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are “stuntgirls” too!
67. Stuntmen do this kind of wok in order to ____________.
A. attract people’s attention B. earn a living
C. enjoy themselves D. pretend to be actors
68. When they jump from a high building, stuntmen _______________.
A. have parachutes B. are covered with a mattress
C. have to risk their lives D. fall in something soft
69. In order to do their job well stuntmen have to be _______________.
A. absolutely strong B. precisely on time
C. especially accurate D. unusually serious
70. Which of the following CAN NOT be implied from the passage?
A. There used to be no stuntwomen.
B. In love stories, stuntmen are not necessary.
C. Stuntmen’s performance will improve the image of a movie.
D. As a stuntman, he needs perfect skills as well as courage.