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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 a poster discovered in our 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 Richard Prince, may 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.
B. advise reader to start a new kind of business
C. ask readers to find photographs behind sofa
D. show readers the value of found photographs
B. found a complaining not under his car wiper
C. is working for several self-published magazines
D. wondered at the artistic nature of found photographs
B. the editors
C. the found photographs
D. the self-published magazines
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
B. doubtful
C. optimistic
D. satisfied
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Even though each country uses doors, doors may have 1 functions and purposes which lead to 2
differences.
When I first to came to America, I noticed that a public building had two different 3 and they had
distinct functions. You have to push the door with the word "PUSH" to go out of the building and to pull the
door with the word "PULL" to 4 the building. This was new to me, because we use the 5 door in South
Korea. For quite a few times I failed to go out of a shopping centre and was embarrassed.
The way of using school bus doors was also 6 to me. I used to take the school bus to closes. The
school decided that when the driver opened both the front and back doom, 7 who were getting off the bus
should get off first, and students who were getting on should get on 8 . in South Korea, we do not need to
wait for people to get off. One morning I hurried to the bus, and when the bus doors opened, I 9 tried to
get on the school bus through the front door. All the students around looked at me. I was totally 10 , and my
face went red.
| ( )1. A. different ( )2. A. national ( )3. A. exits ( )4. A. enter ( )5. A. main ( )6. A. annoying ( )7. A. parents ( )8. A. sooner ( )9. A. politely ( )10. A. embarrassed | B. important B. embarrassing B. entrances B. leave B. same B. hard B. students B. later B. patiently B. annoyed | C. practical C. cultural C. signs C. open C. front C. satisfying C. teachers C. faster C. unconsciously C. unsatisfied | D. unusual D. amazing D. doors D. close D. back D. strange D. driven D. earlier D. slowly D. excited |
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| When former American President Bill Clinton travelled to South Korea to visit President Kim Young Sam, he repeatedly referred to the Korean president"s wife as Mrs. Kim. By mistake, President Clinton"s advisers thought that Koreans have the same naming customs as the Japanese. Clinton had not been told that, in Korea, wives keep their family names. President Kim Young Sam"s wife was named Sohn Myong Suk. Therefore, she should be addressed (称谓) as Mrs. Sohn. President Clinton arrived in Korea directly after leaving Japan and had not changed his culture gears. His failure to follow Korean customs gave the impression that Korea was not as important to him as Japan. In addition to Koreans, some Asian husbands and wives do not share the same family names. This practice often puzzles (使困惑) English-speaking teachers when talking with a pupil"s parents. They become puzzled about the student"s correct last name. Placing the family name first is common among a number of Asian cultures. Mexican naming customs are different as well. When a woman marries, she keeps her family name and adds her husband"s name after the word de (of). This affects (影响) how they fill in forms in the United States. When requested to fill in a middle name, they generally write the father"s family name. But Mexicans are addressed by the family name of the mother. This often causes puzzlement. Here are a few ways to deal with such difficult situations: don"t always think that a married woman uses her husband"s last name. Remember that in many Asian cultures, the order of first and last names is reversed (颠倒), Ask which name a person would prefer to use. If the name is difficult to pronounce, admit it, and ask the person to help you say it correctly. | |||
| 1. The story of Bill Clinton is used to _____. | |||
| A. improve US-Korean relations B. introduce the topic of the text C. describe his visit to Korea D. tell us how to address a person | |||
| 2. The word "gears"in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _____. | |||
| A. action plans B. naming customs C. travel maps D. thinking patterns | |||
| 3. When a woman marries in Korea, she _____. | |||
| A. continues to use her family name B. uses her husband"s given name C. shares her husband"s family name D. adds her husband"s given name to hers | |||
| 4. To address a married woman properly, you"d better _____. | |||
| A. use her middle name B. use her husband"s first name C. ask her which name she likes D. change the order of her names | |||
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| Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open people"s mind to another culture or race. People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own. "Most local stories are based on a larger theme," American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, "Cinderella (灰姑娘), or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world." Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoner too, helping them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they don"t like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. "For every advance in business," she says, "there is a greater need for communication." Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says. Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere, she says. "I learned how people used stories to spread their culture," she says, "What I do is to focus on the value of the stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybody"s story." | |||
| 1. What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2? | |||
| A. They share the same way of storytelling. B. They prefer to tell the stories from other cultures. C. They learn their stories from the American natives. D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults. | |||
| 2. The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _____. | |||
| A. start a new life B. settle down in another place C. direct films D. become good actors | |||
| 3. Pugh has practised storytelling with _____ groups of people. | |||
| A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 | |||
| 4. What is the main idea of the text? | |||
| A. Storytelling can influence the way people think. B. Storytelling is vital to the growth of business. C. Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school. D. Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others. | |||
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| Runners in a relay(接力) race pass a stick in one direction. However, merchants passed silk, gold, fruit, and glass along the Silk Road in more than one direction. They earned their living by traveling the famous Silk Road. The Silk Road was not a simple trading network. It passed through thousands of citied and towns. It started from eastern China, across Central Asia and the Middle East, and ended in the Mediterranean Sea. It was used from about 200 B, C, to about A, D, 1300, when sea travel offered new routes (路线) , It was sometimes called the world"s longest highway. However, the Silk Road was made up of many routes, not one smooth path. They passed through what are now 18 countries. The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun, deep snow and even battles. Only experienced traders could return safe. The Silk Road got its name from its most prized product. Silk could be used like money to pay taxes or buy goods. But the traders carried more than just silk. Gold, silver, and glass from Europe were much found in the Middle East and Asia. Horses traded from other areas changed farming practices in China. Indian merchants traded salt and other valuable goods. Chinese merchants traded paper, which produced an immediate effect on the West. Apples traveled from central Asia to Rome. The Chinese had learned to graft (嫁接) different trees together to make new kinds of fruit. They passed this science on to others, including the Romans. The Romans used grafting to grow the apple. Trading along the Silk Road led to world-wide business 2,000 years before the World Wide Web. The people along the Silk Road did not share just goods. They also shared their beliefs. The Silk Road provided pathways for learning, diplomacy (外交), and religion (宗教) | |||
| 1. It"s probable that traders along the Silk Road needed _____. | |||
| A. to remember the entire trade route B. to know the making of products C. to receive certain special training D. to deal with a lot of difficulties | |||
| 2. The Silk Road became less important because _____. | |||
| A. it was made up of different routes B. silk trading became less popular C. sea travel provided easier routes D. people needed fewer foreign goods | |||
| 3. New technologies could travel along the Silk Road because people _____. | |||
| A. learned from one another B. shared each other"s beliefs C. traded goods along the route D. earned their living by traveling | |||
| 4. What is the best title for the passage? | |||
| A. The Silk Road ; Past and Present B. The Silk Road; East Meets West C. The Silk Road; Routes Full of Dangers D. The Silk Road; Pathways for Learning | |||
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The Home of My People  When Lewis and Clark stepped onto the Weippe Prairie in present-day Idaho in September 1805, they met the Nez Perce Indians. In the following years, the white explorers (探险者) began to fight with the Indians for their land. Some Nez Perce chiefs signed agreements with the U.S. government, selling part of their lands. But the government always broke those agreements and demanded more land. Other chiefs refused to go along with the government"s plans. The most famous was Chief Joseph, whose people lived in the Wallowa Valley(present-day Oregon). "In order to have all people understand how much land we owned," he once explained,"my father planted poles around it and said: "Inside is the home of my people…It circled around the graves (坟墓) of our fathers, and we will never give up these graves to any man. " But in 1874, the U.S. government declared the valley open for white settlement and ordered the Nez Perce onto a reservation (保留地). Seeing that resistance was useless, Chief Joseph agreed to move. Later, fighting broke out between the Nez Perce and U.S. soldiers. Chief Joseph tried to lead his people to Canada, winning several battles against the soldiers during their flight. But finally, he was forced to give in. | |||
| 1. Which historic site (on the map)lies in the south of today"s Nez Perce Reservation? | |||
| A. Buffalo Eddy. B. Dug Bar. C. Joseph Canyon Viewpoint. D. Chief Looking Glass Camp. | |||
| 2. What can we learn about the Nez Perce lands from the map? | |||
| A. They were in the state of Oregon. B. They have become a historic site. C. They have become much smaller. D. They were limited to the Wallowa Valley. | |||
| 3. From Paragraph 3, we know that the Indians wanted to ______. | |||
| A. show off their land B. keep their land C. turn their place into a graveyard D. build their homes around the poles |