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

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

Prince is certainly not theonly contemporary artist to have worked with so-called "foundphotographs" ——a loose term given to everything from discarded (丢弃的) prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateurphotographs from a stranger'sfamily album.The Germanartist Joachim Schmid, who believes "basically everything is worth lookingat", has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since1982.In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographsof family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinnerwith the family; and so on.

Like Schmid, the editors ofseveral self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫)found photographs.One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chi-cago,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 HEREat HER place?" The note became the starting point for Rothbard's addictivepublication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such as aposter discovered in our drawer.

The whole found-photographphenomenon has raised some questions.Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can theseimages really be considered as art? And if so, whose art?

Yet found photographs producedby artists, such as Richard Prince, may raise endless possibilities.What was the cowboy in Prince'sUntitled doing? Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how didPrince create this photograph? It's anyone's guess.Inaddition, as we imagine the back-story tO the people in the found photographs artists,like Schmid, have collated (整理), we also turn towardour own photographic al-bums.Why is memory soimportant to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of ourchildren, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything toanyone after we've gone?

21.The first paragraph of thepassage is used to __________.

A.remind readers of found photographs

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

答案：D

22.According to the passage, JoachimSchmid __________.

A.is fond of collecting family life photographs

B.found a complaining note under his car wiper

C.is working for several self-published magazines

D.wondered at the artistic nature of foundphotographs

答案：A

23.The underlined word"them" in Paragraph 4 refers to __________.

A.the readers

B.the editors

C.the found photographs

D.the self-published magazines

答案：D

24.By asking a series of questionsin Paragraph 5, the author mainly intends to indi-cate 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 isquestionable

答案：B

25.The author's attitude towardsfound photographs can be described as__________.

A.critical

B.doubtful

C.optimistic

D.satisfied

答案：C

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