Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!

In 2005,the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph,Untitled (Cowboy),was sold for $1 248 000.

Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs”—a loose term given to everything from discarded(丢弃的)prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album.The German artist Joachim Schmid,who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”,has gathered discarded photographs,postcards and newspaper images since 1982.In his on-going project,Archiv,he groups photographs of family life according to themes:people with dogs;teams;new cars;dinner with the family;and so on.

Like Schmid,the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion(捍卫)found photographs.One of them,called simply Found,was born one snowy night in Chicago,when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper(雨刷)an angry note intended for someone else:“Why’s your car HERE at HER place?”The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication,which features found photographs sent in by readers,such as a poster discovered in your drawer.

The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions.Perhaps one of the most difficult is:can these images really be considered as art?And,if so,whose art?Yet found photographs produced by artists,such as Richard Prince,may raise endless possibilities.What was the cowboy in Prince’s Untitled doing?Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone?Or how did Prince create this photograph?It’s anyone’s guess.In addition,as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists,like Schmid,have collated(整理),we also turn toward our own photographic albums.Why is memory so important to us?Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children,our parents,our lovers,and ourselves?Will they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?

In the absence of established facts,the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely.That,above all,is why they are so fascinating.

The first paragraph of the passage is used to_______.

A.remind readers of found photographs

B.advise readers to start a new kind of business

C.ask readers to find photographs behind sofas

D.show readers the value of found photographs

According to the passage,Joachim Schmid_______.

A.is fond of collecting family life photographs

B.found a complaining note under his car wiper

C.is working for several self-published art magazines

D.wondered at the artistic nature of found photographs

The underlined word “them”in Paragraph 4 refers to“_______”.

A.the readers

B.the editors

C.the found photographs

D.the self-published magazines

By asking a series of questions in Paragraph 5,the author mainly intends to indicate that_______.

A.memory of the past is very important to people

B.found photographs allow people to think freely

C.the back-story of found photographs is puzzling

D.the real value of found photographs is questionable

The author’s attitude toward found photographs can be described as_______.

A.critical                                                         B.doubtful

C.optimistic                                                     D.satisfied

He was named Robert _____ his father by mother.

　 A. to 　 B. upon  C. after 　 D. under

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76.The police c_______ him of stealing a car and put him into prison .

77.At last , we can’t help showing m_____to the beggar .

78.A scientist should be a person who has c________about things.

79.The elderly need special care in winter , as they are s______to the sudden change of weather.

80.The examiner will test your a______to drive under normal road conditions.

81.The agency offers practical _______(  指导  ) to people staring their owwn business.

82.My camera can be _______(调节  )to take pictures in cloudy or sunny conditions.   

83.He was ________ (沮丧  ) when he heard the bad news .

84.I felt very disappointed when my repeated request that I join the club was _______( 拒绝  ). 85.According to his _______( 先前的 ) experience in driving cars , he must be very careful when it is snowing.      

The big building ______ construction will be a shopping mall in the city.

   A. in                B. under                C. over                  D. during

The old temple _______ roof was damaged in storm is now under repair.   

A. where    B. which    C. its     D. whose