Other way to print few first and last line of file

[marek.borkowski@wildvmi2.polsatc ~]$ cat line_test | awk 'NR > 3 { exit }; 1'
1 line
2 line
3 line

[marek.borkowski@wildvmi2.polsatc ~]$ cat line_test | awk 'END { print }'
5 line