1 . What is the place of art in a culture of inattention? Recent visitors to the Louvre report that tourists can now spend only a minute in front of the Mona Lisa before being asked to move on. Much of that time, for some of them, is spent taking photographs not even of the painting but of themselves with the painting in the background.

One view is that we have made tourism and gallery-going so easy that we have made it effectively impossible to appreciate what we’ve travelled to see. In this society, experience becomes goods like any other. There are queues to climb Everest as well as to see famous paintings. Thus, leisure is considered as hard labour rather than relaxation.

In the rapidly developing society, what gets lost is the quality of looking. Consider an extreme example, the late philosopher Richard Wollheim. When he visited the Louvre he could spend as much as four hours sitting before a painting. The first hour, he claimed, was necessary for incorrect impression to be removed. It was only then that the picture would begin to disclose itself. This seems unthinkable today, but it is still possible to organise. Even in the busiest museums there are many rooms and many pictures worth hours of contemplation (沉思) which the crowds largely ignore.

Marcel Proust, another lover of the Louvre, wrote: “It is only through art that we can escape from ourselves and know how another person sees a universe which is not the same as our own and whose landscapes would otherwise have remained as unknown as any there may be on the moon.” If any art remains worth seeing, it must lead us to such escapes. But a minute in front of a painting in a hurried, harried (烦扰) crowd won’t do that.

1. Why does the author mention the example in Louvre in Paragraph 1?

A．To express his concern about Louvre.	B．To report the popularity of Mona Lisa.
C．To introduce a good place to take photos.	D．To show a disappointing current situation.

2. Which of the following will Richard Wollheim agree?

A．People need to clear up their misunderstanding of paintings.

B．People have to stay at least 4 hours when appreciating paintings.

C．It is impossible for modern people to admire paintings attentively.

D．The longer one admires the paintings, the more unlikely he loves them.

3. What role does art play in our life according to Marcel Proust?

A．Art is of help for us to accept ourselves better.

B．Art makes our life more colourful and meaningful.

C．Art allows us to know the world in the view of others.

D．Art pushes us away from ourselves and explores the moon.

4. Which is the best title of the passage?

A．Into art attentively.	B．Escape from ourselves.
C．Beyond art completely.	D．Go to the museums often.

2 . Not long ago, people could only buy organic food in small shops. Today it is common in most major supermarkets. The reason for the increase is that more and more people are demanding food grown without chemicals. Since the 1990s, organic farm production has gone up continuously. This pattern is expected to continue around the globe.

Australia leads the world in land used for organic agriculture. It has four times as much land devoted to organic farming as all of Asia. However, most of the land is not very fertile, and it only produces a modest amount of food. Argentina is a distant second, followed by Brazil, the United States and China. In Africa, only a very small amount of land is registered for organic farming. That does not mean Africa relies on chemicals. In fact, many farmers do not use chemicals because they cannot afford them. Yet there are no programmes for these farmers to prove they do not use chemicals. Without these programmes, their food can never be approved organic.

India has had the most dramatic recent increase in organic farming. Like many other countries,India sees continual growth in organic food sales around the world. This, of course, leads to growth in profits. Sales of organic food were more than doubled from 2000 to 2005. Like India, many countries are trying to increase commercial organic farming to get a share of the sales. This has led to criticism.Some people believe that organic farming should not just be about making money. They think the goal is to help the environment. Others say organic farming will not continue if it is not profitable. They say that people should be able to make money while providing health y food for mankind.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Organic farming is growing around the world.

B．Organic food has become much less common.

C．Peopledonotwanttoeatfoodwithchemicalsinit.

D．Countries all want to make money from organic farming.

2. From the second paragraph, we can know that       .

A．India uses the least land to organic farming

B．Brazil uses less land to organic farming than China

C．the US is the fourth largest organic farming country

D．China and India have the same amount of organic farmland

3. Why do people want to increase organic farming?

A．Organic food is good for the Earth and the human beings.

B．More and more people demand chemicals to grow food.

C．There are fewer chemicals available to the human beings.

D．Profits from organic farming help make approval programmes.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that        .

A．people who eat food with chemicals have shorter lifespan

B．India will soon become the largest country of growing organic food

C．more countries will farm organically as the environment gets worse

D．there will be fewer organic farms if the demand for organic food goes down