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

  Weather is the subject matter of Westerners whenever they meet. Housewives, businessmen, factory workers as well as farmers all talk about the weather. It is everyday news, whether or not conditions change. Many newspapers carry a regular front page news story in addition to the full reports on as inside-page provided by the weather service. Here are several different types of weather reports taken from the western papers:

    No.1 Regional forecast

    No. 2 Three-day Forecast

 

No. 3 Weather Stories

 

1.In a street of corner of London, two strangers may begin their talk with “______”

A. Hi, how are you?               B. What are doing here? Waiting for someone?

C. A nice day, isn’t it?              D. Didn’t you listen to the weather report last night?

2.The noon temperature of _______ is nearly 70’s at the weekend.

   A. Western Great Lakes             B. Duluth, Minn

   C. Westchester, Rockland           D. New Jersey

3.It seems that ________ has plenty of rain at the present season.

   A. Western Great Lakes             B. Winsconsin

   C. Westchester, Rockland           D. New Jersey

4. Which of the following is most probable according to No.3?

A. The traffic was terribly affected.   

B. The Five Great Lakes were covered by heavy snow.

C. The temperatures might drop to 50℃.

D. Many schools were damaged in the snowstorm.

 

I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.

Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible (负责任) for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.

Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.

1.The story took place exactly ____ .

A．in the teacher’s office	B．in an exam room
C．in the school	D．in the language lab

2.The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because ____ .

A．she had not brought a pen with her

B．she had lost her own on her way to school

C．there was something wrong with her pen

D．her own had been taken away by someone

3.The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy ____ .

A．to go on writing his paper

B．to stop whispering

C．to leave the room immediately

D．to stay behind after the exam

4.The thing(s) emphasized in the teacher’s talk was (were) ____ .

A．honesty

B．sense of duty

C．seriousness

D．all of the above

5.The boy knew everything ____ .

A．the moment he was asked to stay behind

B．when the teacher started talking about honesty

C．only some time later

D．when he was walking out of the room

 

I remember one Thanksgiving when our family had no money and no food, and someone came knocking on our door. A man was __36_____ there with a huge box of food, a giant turkey and even some ___37___to cook it in. I couldn’t ___38_____it. My dad demanded, “Who are you? Where are you from?” The stranger announced, “I’m here because a friend of yours knows you’re in need and that you wouldn’t accept ___39_____help, so I’ve brought this for you. Have a great Thanksgiving.” My father said, “No, no, we ___40_____ accept this.” The stranger replied, “You don’t have ___41_____” , closed the door and left.

Obviously that experience had a profound impact（深刻影响）on my life. I ____42____myself that someday I would do well enough financially ___43____ I could do the same thing for other people. By the time I was eighteen I had created my Thanksgiving ritual（习惯）. I would go out __44_____ and buy enough food for one or two __45_____. Then I would dress like a delivery boy, go to the ____46____ neighborhood and just knock on a ___47_____ . I always ___48_____ a note that explained my Thanksgiving experience ____49____a kid. The note said, “All that I ask __50______is that you take good enough care of __51_____ so that someday you can do the same thing for someone else.” I have received more from this annual ritual than I have from any amount of ___52_____ I’ve ever earned.

Years ago I was in New York City with my new wife during Thanksgiving. She was sad because we were not with our family. ___53____she would be home decorating the house for Christmas, but we were ___54_____ in a hotel room. When I told her what I always did on Thanksgiving, she got excited.

We packed enough food for seven families for thirty days and went to buildings where half a dozen people lived in one room with no electricity and no heat in winter surrounded by rats, cockroaches（蟑螂）and the smell of urine（尿）. It was both an ___55______realization that people lived in this way and a truly fulfilling experience to make even a small difference.

1.	A．speaking B．standing C．looking D．shouting

 

2.	A．meat B．vegetables C．pans D．firewood

 

3.	A．believe B．accept C．help D．refuse

 

4.	A．direct B．some C．our D．any

 

5.	A．may not B．needn’t C．can’t D．daren’t

 

6.	A．any money B．a choice C．food D．a turkey

 

7.	A．permitted B．promised C．asked D．said

 

8.	A．when B．so that C．even if D．as if

 

9.	A．driving B．playing C．offering D．shopping

 

10.	A．people B．children C．families D．days

 

11.	A．nearest B．farthest C．largest D．poorest

 

12.	A．house B．door C．window D．gate

 

13.	A．concluded B．included C．wrote D．took

 

14.	A．like B．with C．as D．to

 

15.	A．in return B．later C．in future D．for

 

16.	A．others B．yourself C．your family D．the presents

 

17.	A．warmth B．thanks C．money D．encouragement

 

18.	A．Unfortunately B．Obviously C．Normally D．Gradually

 

19.	A．stuck B．excited C．free D．delighted

 

20.	A．exciting B．astonishing C．encouraging D．Outstanding

 

I remember one Thanksgiving when our family had no money and no food, and someone came knocking on our door. A man was __36_____ there with a huge box of food, a giant turkey and even some ___37___to cook it in. I couldn’t ___38_____it. My dad demanded, “Who are you? Where are you from?” The stranger announced, “I’m here because a friend of yours knows you’re in need and that you wouldn’t accept ___39_____help, so I’ve brought this for you. Have a great Thanksgiving.” My father said, “No, no, we ___40_____ accept this.” The stranger replied, “You don’t have ___41_____” , closed the door and left.

Obviously that experience had a profound impact（深刻影响）on my life. I ____42____myself that someday I would do well enough financially ___43____ I could do the same thing for other people. By the time I was eighteen I had created my Thanksgiving ritual（习惯）. I would go out __44_____ and buy enough food for one or two __45_____. Then I would dress like a delivery boy, go to the ____46____ neighborhood and just knock on a ___47_____ . I always ___48_____ a note that explained my Thanksgiving experience ____49____a kid. The note said, “All that I ask __50______is that you take good enough care of __51_____ so that someday you can do the same thing for someone else.” I have received more from this annual ritual than I have from any amount of ___52_____ I’ve ever earned.

Years ago I was in New York City with my new wife during Thanksgiving. She was sad because we were not with our family. ___53____she would be home decorating the house for Christmas, but we were ___54_____ in a hotel room. When I told her what I always did on Thanksgiving, she got excited.

We packed enough food for seven families for thirty days and went to buildings where half a dozen people lived in one room with no electricity and no heat in winter surrounded by rats, cockroaches（蟑螂）and the smell of urine（尿）. It was both an ___55______realization that people lived in this way and a truly fulfilling experience to make even a small difference.

A. speaking         B. standing        C. looking       D. shouting

A. meat            B. vegetables       C. pans         D. firewood

A. believe          B. accept          C. help          D. refuse

A. direct           B. some           C. our           D. any

A. may not         B. needn’t         C. can’t          D. daren’t

A. any money       B. a choice        C. food          D. a turkey

A. permitted        B. promised       C. asked          D. said

A. when           B. so that          C. even if         D. as if

A. driving          B. playing         C. offering        D. shopping

A. people         B. children         C. families        D. days

A. nearest         B. farthest         C. largest         D. poorest

A. house          B. door            C. window       D. gate

A. concluded      B. included         C. wrote         D. took

A. like           B. with             C. as            D. to

A. in return       B. later             C. in future       D. for

A. others         B. yourself          C. your family     D. the presents

A. warmth        B. thanks           C. money         D. encouragement

A. Unfortunately   B. Obviously        C. Normally       D. Gradually

A. stuck          B. excited          C. free            D. delighted

A. exciting        B. astonishing       C. encouraging     D. Outstanding