海南省海南枫叶国际学校2017-2018学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案
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第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)

第一节 阅读下列短文,从A,B,C,D中选出最佳选项。(共15小题;每小题2分,共30分)

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  In 1826, a Frenchman named Nieple needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo.

  The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837.That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest thing. The kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype. Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all over the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains.

  In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of films and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked so hard.

  Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were lifelike. Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed the author's ideas and feelings, like other kinds of art.

根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。

31. The first photo taken by Nieple was a picture of .

A. his business B. his house C. his garden D. his window

32. The daguerreotype was .

A. a Frenchman B. a kind of picture C. a kind of camera D. a photographer

33. If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in the year of 1840, he had to .

A. watch lots of films B. buy an expensive camera

C. stop in most cities D. take many films and something else with him