Blind photography sounds strange．But a striking exhibition of photographs in California argues that it develops as a result of the contemporary art．The show "Sight Unseen", at the California Museum of Photography until Aug．29, includes everything: underwater scenes, landscapes, abstracts and everything else you might expect from a "sighted" photographer．

       How do the blind take their photographs? Some rely on assistants to set up and then describe the shots （鏡頭） , and others just point and shoot in the right place．"Just like any good artists," says McCulloh．"They have their unique ways of operating．" One participating photographer is Pete Eckert, an artist with multiple degrees in design and sculpture who only turned to photography after losing his vision in the mid-1990s．He opens the shutter （快門） on his camera and then uses flashlights, lights, and candies to paint his scene on film．A former fashion photographer in Chicago, Weston, lost his vision due to AIDS in 1996 and focuses on images of destruction and disability．His photos are also a star of the show．

       What do gallery-goers say? "I was very impressed by it．The technique and experience was amazingly different," says John Hesketh, a printmaker in Anaheim．"You never have a sense of feeling sorry for these people because they've worked very hard to prove their value．"

       Beyond the praise, however, the exhibition also makes a great example for disabled people everywhere．That point was explained in early May during a discussion on the TV show．At the very end of the talk, one attendee expressed his opinion．"This exhibition is extraordinary and revolutionary for many reasons．I think that by being an artist with a disability, you are continuing the work of those people who fought for basic civil rights to gain access and to have a voice．In that way, it's so wonderful that your photographs say it all．"

1. From the passage we know that some blind people take photos by ________.

A．describing the things to their assistants

B．holding the camera and shooting randomly

C．opening the shutter with the help of others

D．using special equipment designed for them

2. We can learn from the passage that blind photographers ______

A．were not born blind                            

B．do jobs related to art

C．focus on different subjects                   

D．like photos of destruction

3. What is people's reaction to the blind photography show?

A．They admire the blind photographers' hard work．

B．They feel really sorry for those blind photographers．

C．They think some have good techniques while others not．

D．They can understand the real meaning of each photograph．

4. The significance of the exhibition lies in the fact that ______．

A．the California Museum of Photography receives praises for holding the show

B．the public have a chance to know what the blind people are concerned about

C．the blind photographers have a good place to show their works

D．the exhibition can be very inspiring to the blind in the world

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If you’ve ever seen a James Bond movie you’ll know that the hero gets around in a smart Aston Martin car. Even if you know full well that you could never afford such an expensive vehicle, you don’t forget the name, or the car.

Why? You have been subjected to product placement.

Companies pay a film to place their products in the movie. Product placement took off in the West in the 1980s and is now catching on in China. Two Hunan Satellite TV dramas arerecent examples：Ugly Wudi and Let’s Go Watch the Meteror Shower（《一起去看流星雨》）.

Shampoo, mobile phones, cars and fitness centers-anything can be product-placed. Advertisers value the mass appeal of the movies, knowing that a successful film can showcase their goods to hundreds of thousands of viewers. But when product placement takes over, artistic considerations can take a back seat.

Cai Zhiyong has been product-placing for years. The Beijing-based advertiser admits there is a conflict between art and business. He explains the way one ad works. In If You are the One（《非誠(chéng)勿擾》）,the actress Shu Qi plays a flight attendant. The movie contains product placement for airline companies.

Cash-strapped filmmakers often have to sacrifice the quality of their work because they need money form advertisers. In the original story for Meteor Shower, the heroine’s mother owned an ice cream shop. But no ice cream company wanted to sponsor the film. For this reason, the story was changed. In the film the man drinks20 cups of milk tea where it was originally intended that he would eat ice cream.

Even here tough, you may see the power of business over the movies, since the script was perhaps written so a product could be placed-whether it was ice cream or milk tea.

1.James Bond movies are mentioned in the first paragraph to show_________.

A．how popular James Bond is    B．how great the Aston Martin car is

C．how to make a movie more artistic D．how effectively product placement works

2.Product placement can have a bad effect on the_________ of a movie.

A．a(chǎn)tmosphere      B．mass appeal      C．commercial success  D．a(chǎn)rtistic value

3.What does the underlined word “cash-strapped” in Paragraph 6 probably mean?

A．Short of money.             B．Self-financed  

C．With abundant cash. D．Intending to earn money

4.We can learn from the adaptation of Meteor Shower that__________.

A．business has a big say in the movie

B．the original story was not suitable for a movie

C．filmmakers are more concerned about making money.

D．milk tea companies are more successful than ice cream companies.

While in London, we paid a visit to the hospital founded_________the nurse Florence Nightingale.

       A．in need of    B．in favor of    C．in honor of   D．in place of

 When asked about my plan for the future, I hope to get a job on the local newspaper at first and ________work for "China Daily"．

  A．regularly      B．frequently     C．gradually         D．eventually

The group gets smaller as members move away or _______.

   A. leave out           B. drop out           C. cut in             D. fill up

．Ms Li’s business _________ very quickly. She opened her first store two years ago; now she has fifty stores all over the country.

       A. transformed              B. ranged                            C. responded                 D. expanded

 There was ______ time ______ I hated to go to school.

A. a; when              B. a; that       C. the; that            D. the; when

John is no less hardworking than his sister, _______ he failed in the exam.

   A. but       B. thus           C. or               D. and

—I am leaving for the States tomorrow, Caroline!

 —    _______       

 A．Take your time. B．All the best! C．Well done! D．That’s OK.

Not having worked out the problem, ________   leave the office. 

A. so he was not allowed to B. and he didn't want to

C. the teacher couldn't make him D. he couldn't free himself to