The first time I noticed this phenomenon(现象)was a few years ago, in St Peter's Basilica in Rome—a crowd of people standing round Michelangelo's Pieta, taking photos with their cameras and mobile phones. Then last week I saw it _______ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At first, I wasn't too _______ when I saw people _______ the paintings. It was a bit annoying, _______ that was all. It didn't really make me _______. Then the sad _______ hit me. Most of the people were taking photos without looking at the _______ themselves. People around were _______ me, not because they were trying to get a better view of the _______, but because they __________ to make sure that no one blocked their photo. Was it possible that perhaps they were taking the photos so that they could admire(欣赏)the paintings better __________they got home? This was very __________. They were not there to __________ the paintings, but to take photos to __________ that they had been there.
Then it got __________. Now people were taking photos of their friends who were posing in front of some of the most well-known paintings. Neither the photographers nor the person they were photographing had __________ the art itself , __________ I saw that sometimes they __________ the label(标签), to make sure that the artist really was __________. At least nobody asked me to take a picture of them together, smiling in front of a Picasso!
I think that photography in museums should be __________, but I also have a less drastic(严厉的)solution.I think that people who want to take a photo of a painting should be forced to look at it first, for at least one minute.
【小题1】A.soon | B.alone | C.later | D.again |
【小题2】A.proud | B.afraid | C.worried | D.excited |
【小题3】A.copying | B.destroying | C.touching | D.photographing |
【小题4】【小题5】A.angry | B.surprised | C.happy | D.disappointed |
【小题6】A.news | B.history | C.truth | D.story |
【小题7】A.walls | B.visitors | C.scenes | D.paintings |
【小题8】A.pushing | B.passing | C.greeting | D.asking |
【小题9】A.star | B.art | C.building | D.museum |
【小题10】A.refused | B.failed | C.decided | D.wanted |
【小题11】A.before | B.when | C.unless | D.if |
【小题12】A.important | B.necessary | C.improbable | D.strange |
【小题13】【小题14】A.explain | B.prove | C.imagine | D.find |
【小题15】A.worse | B.easier | C.stronger | D.better |
【小题16】A.known about | B.paid for | C.learned from | D.looked at |
【小题17】A.for | B.since | C.although | D.after |
【小题18】A.read | B.made | C.wrote | D.changed |
【小题19】A.skillful | B.alive | C.famous | D.creative |
【小题20】A.stopped | B.prepared | C.welcomed | D.allowed |