BEYKENT UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL WAYSTAGE
Reading

Read the text carefully.

AFRAID OF NOTHING
1 Vic Armstrong is afraid of nothing. He fell out of windows, jumped off bridges, rode
motorcycle through fire, climbed up the outside of a skyscraper and drove into a wall
because thats his job.
2 Vic is a stunt double in films and does things that most of us think are crazy. Vic was
Harrison Fords stunt double in all three early Indiana Jones films. He also worked on many
James Bond films including Die Another Day. A job on a Bond film is the most fun for the
stuntmen They can try out the cars, says Vic.
3 His most famous stunt was when he jumped from a horse onto a German tank in one of the
Indiana Jones films. Movie viewers voted this and they think it is one of the ten best stunts
of all time
4 Vic broke some bones, but he says that it is part of the job. He now spends more time as a
stunt director, directing other stuntmen. In 2002 he worked on Gangs of New York with one of
his favorite directors, Martin Scorsese. Vic says it was great fun.
5 Now, after forty years of stunt work, the man without fear feels the same way. Vic still
thinks its the best job in the world: I enjoy my work now as much as when I started, he
says. And now, as a stunt director, I tell other people to fall and jump. And the money is
very, very good.
A. Are the sentences 1-7 true (T) or false (F)?
1. Vic played Indiana Jones when Harrison Ford was ill.
2. He likes working on Bond films because he can drive the cars.
3. Gangs of New York is one of his favorite movies.
4. He started doing stunt work over forty years ago.
5. Vic sometimes hurt himself in his job.
6. He doesnt like working on films very much anymore.
7. Vic gets a lot of money for his work.
B. What do the following words refer in the text?
1. His (parag.3): ..
2. they (parag.3): .
3. it (parag.3):
4. his (parag.4): ..
5. the man (parag.5): ..
6. it (parag.5): .
C. Complete the sentences using the underlined words in the text.
1. The child is very thin. You can see her ..
2. .. are widely used in many action films to shoot difficult and dangerous
scenes.
3. She is the of her mother.

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SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL WAYSTAGE
Reading

4. His office is in one of the tallest .. in the city.

ANSWER KEY
A.
1. F
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. T
6. F
7. T
B.
1. Vics
2. Most viewers
3. His most famous stunt
4. Vics
5. Vic
6. Stunt double
C.
1. Bones
2. Stuntmen
3. Double
4. skyscraper