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(丟棄的） 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 (捍衛(wèi)) 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 some 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.
【小題1】The first paragraph of the passage is used to _________.

A．remind readers of found photographs
B．a(chǎn)dvise reader to start a new kind of business
C．a(chǎn)sk readers to find photographs behind sofa
D．show readers the value of found photographs
【小題2】According to the passage, Joachim Schmid _________.
A．is fond of collecting family life 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
【小題3】The underlined word "them" in Para 4 refers to __________.
A．the readersB．the editors
C．the found photographsD．the self-published magazines
【小題4】By asking a series of questions in Para 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
【小題5】The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as _________.
A．criticalB．doubtfulC．optimisticD．satisfied


【小題1】D
【小題2】A
【小題3】D
【小題4】B
【小題5】C

解析試題分析：本文敘述了found photographs的價值和該商業(yè)的發(fā)展以及這種想象引起的一些問題，found photographs就是對過去的照片因?yàn)榱魇В驘o主或丟棄的照片的復(fù)原，由于缺少最原始的事實(shí)，到底這些照片是怎樣的寓意，你可以展開想象的翅膀去想象了。
【小題1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy）, was sold for $ 1, 248, 000.可以推出說明這些老照片的價值。故選D。
【小題2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.他根據(jù)主題把照片分組，這說明他收集了許多照片，可以推出他喜歡收集家庭照片，故選A。
【小題3】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)called simply Found及find under his wiper(雨刷) an angry note誕可以猜測出應(yīng)選D。
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely,故選B。
【小題5】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.故選C。
考點(diǎn)：文化類短文閱讀。
點(diǎn)評：推理判斷題需要考生正確的閱讀短文對語篇有個整體的把握。會根據(jù)語句之間的邏輯關(guān)系、段內(nèi)的語義關(guān)系及篇章的語義關(guān)系，從段落、篇章的角度理解文章的主旨、作者的觀點(diǎn)和態(tài)度。做此類試題要善于抓住某一段話中的關(guān)鍵信息，即某些關(guān)鍵詞或短語去分析、推理、判斷，利用逆向思維或正面推理，從而推斷出這句話所隱含的深層含義。

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