Use Of English: Test J

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Use Of English: Test J

The fall guy

Nick Gillard earns a living working as a stuntman on films and TV shows but his first __(1)__ of show business was trick-riding circus horses when he was just 12 years old. Four years later he got the chance to __(2)__ in his first film. ‘I really enjoyed working on the film,’ Nick remembers, ‘so I started asking how I’d __(3)__ becoming a stuntman.’ Nick couldn’t just __(4)__ as a stuntman straight away. First he had to get __(5)__ by the British Stunt Register, which represents stunt professionals in Britain. To do this he had to reach instructor __(6)__ in six sports including skiing, riding and gymnastics. Since qualifying __(7)__ the age of 19, Nick has worked on many movies and he has doubled for some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

Safety and timing are all-important for stunt professionals - they plan everything down to the __(8)__ detail. ‘We take the utmost __(9)__. It’s not like being an actor where you can __(10)__ the shot again if it goes wrong. It’s got to work first time.’ Nick has __(11)__ some terrifyingly dangerous stunts. For one film he jumped across a bridge in a speed boat, and in Alien 3 he was __(12)__ on fire, without air, for more than two minutes. Filming on location __(13)__ him all __(14)__ the world, often for months __(15)__ a time.

- A) lesson
- B) experiment
- C) attempt
- D) taste
- A) play
- B) practice
- C) perform
- D) show
- A) go on
- B) go about
- C) go by
- D) go for
- A) put up
- B) establish
- C) set up
- D) introduce
- A) applied
- B) allowed
- C) agreed
- D) accepted
- A) line
- B) level
- C) measure
- D) mark
- A) in
- B) on
- C) at
- D) by
- A) tiniest
- B) lowest
- C) least
- D) lightest
- A) caution
- B) care
- C) attention
- D) guard
- A) have
- B) make
- C) give
- D) take
- A) made
- B) done
- C) led
- D) given
- A) put
- B) caught
- C) set
- D) lit
- A) takes
- B) brings
- C) flies
- D) fetches
- A) about
- B) through
- C) across
- D) over
- A) at
- B) on
- C) for
- D) in

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