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1、Reading Comprehension for CET 6Passage 1In the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia,one scene shows an American newspaper reporter eagerly snapping photos of men looting a sabotaged train.One of the looters,Chief Auda abu Tayi of the Howeitat clan,suddenly notices the camera and snatches it.Am I in this?he
2、 asks,before smashing it open.To the dismayed reporter,Lawrence explains,He thinks these things will steal his virtue.He thinks youre a kind of thief.As soon as colonizers and explorers began taking cameras into distant lands,stories began circulating about how indigenous peoples saw them as tools f
3、or black magic.The ignorant natives may have had a point.When photography first became available,scientists welcomed it as a more objective way of recording faraway societies than early travelers exaggerated accounts.But in some ways,anthropological photographs reveal more about the culture that hol
4、ds the camera than the one that stares back.Up into the 1950s and 1960s,many ethnographers sought pure pictures of primitive cultures,routinely deleting modern accoutrements such as clocks and Western dress.They paid men and women to re-enact rituals or to pose as members of war or hunting parties,o
5、ften with little regard for veracity.Edward Curtis,the legendary photographer of North American Indians,for example,got one Makah man to pose as a whaler with a spear in 1915-even though the Makah had not hunted whales in a generation.These photographs reinforced widely accepted stereotypes that ind
6、igenous cultures were isolated,primitive,and unchanging.For instance,National Geographic magazines photographs have taught millions of Americans about other cultures.As Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins point out in their 1993 book Reading National Geographic,the magazine since its founding in 1888 ha
7、s kept a tradition of presenting beautiful photos that dont challenge white,middle-class American conventions.While dark-skinned women can be shown without tops,for example,white womens breasts are taboo.Photos that could unsettle or disturb,such as areas of the world torn asunder by war or famine,a
8、re discarded in favor of those that reassure,to conform with the societys stated pledge to present only kindly visions of foreign societies.The result,Lutz and Collins say,is the depiction of an idealized and exotic world relatively free of pain or class conflict.Lutz actually likes National Geograp
9、hic a lot.She read the magazine as a child,and its lush imagery influenced her eventual choice of anthropology as a career.She just thinks that as people look at the photographs of other cultures,they should be alert to the choice of composition and images.1.The main idea of the passage is_.APhotogr
10、aphs taken by Western explorers reflect more Westerners perception of the indigenous cultures and the Western values.BThere is a complicated relationship between the Western explorers and the primitive peoples.CPopular magazines such as National Geographic should show pictures of the exotic and idea
11、lized worlds to maintain high sales.DAnthropologists ask the natives to pose for their pictures,compromising the truthfulness of their pictures.2.We can infer from the passage that early travelers to the native lands often_.Atook pictures with the nativesBgave exaggerated accounts of the native land
12、sCask for pictures from the nativesDgave the natives clocks and Western dresses3.The author mentions the movie Lawrence of Arabia to_.Ashow how people in the indigenous societies are portrayed by Westerners.Billustrate how people from primitive societies see cameras as tools of black magic that stea
13、l their virtues.Cshow how anthropologists portray untruthful pictures of native people.Dshow the cruel and barbarian side of the native people.4.“But in some ways,anthropological photographs reveal more about the culture that holds the camera than the one that stares back.”In this sentence,the“onecu
14、lturethat stares back”refers to_.Athe indigenous cultureBthe Western cultureCthe academic cultureDthe news business culture5.With which of the following statements would Catherine Lutz most probably agree?AReporters from the Western societies should routinely delete modern elements in pictures taken
15、 of the indigenous societies.BThe primitive cultures are inferior to the more advanced Western culture.CThe western media are not presenting a realistic picture of the faraway societies.DPeople in the Western news business should try not to challenge the well-established white middle-class values.答案
16、: A B B A CPassage 2The British Medical Journal recently featured a strong response to what was judged an inappropriately lenient reaction by a medical school to a student cheating in an examination.Although we have insufficient reliable data about the extent of this phenomenon,its prevention,or its effective management,much can be concluded a
