【正文】 tay.‖ His conviction may have been fostered by a recent visitor from America, who spotted designs for the horse on a website and came to Folkestone believing it already existed. Charles Newington, the proposed artist, says he was taken aback by the support for his design. ―It‘s bee important as an issue because the people of Folkestone ant it,‖ he said. ―You can call it a lucky charm, a talisman an icon.. I didn‘t see it as a way of regenerating the area when I started, but that‘s hat it‘s bee.‖ There are around 17 chalk horses in the UK and the practice of cutting the even has its own name, leucippotomy. The best known, at Uffington in Berkshire, probably dates from between 1,4000 and 600 BC, although most were created in the lat three centuries. Rather than carve a horse, Folkestone volunteers will fix panels into the soil to reduce damage from erosion and make maintenance easy. Mr. Newington estimates that it will cost around ￡ 4,000 which he believes will be easily raised through donations. John Prescott, the environment secretary, will read the inquiry‘s remendations and approve or reject the scheme within the next six months. Should he turn it don, Richard Bougie, who farms Cheriton Hill and is the scheme‘s foremost advocate, has warned tat they may go all the ay to the European courts, albeit with misgivings. ―You know what they do to horse in Brusels, don‘t you?‖ he asked the planning inspector. ―They eat them.‖ 6. It can be concluded from the passage that the focus of the argument is _______. (A) how to preserve the wildlife in nFolkestone (B) how to attract overseas tourists to Folkestone (C) whether the giant galloping horse should be built near the Channel tunnel (D) whether ecological damage can be avoided if the horse I created on Cheriton Hill 7. The proposal to build a 100m galloping horse near the entrance to the channel tunnel is warmly weled by the local people. The reason is that _______. (A) it will be the largest of all chalk horses in the UK (B) it will be a grand symbol of Folkestone‘ culture (C) it will improve the habitat fro wildlife on Cheriton Hill 9 (D) it will enhance the publicity of Folkestone and stimulate its tourism 8. According to Charles Newignton, the designer of the giant white horse, _______. (A) the building of the hite horse has only artistic value (B) the public response to the white horse project is beyond his expectation (C) the cost for building the white horse will be a big issue (D) the planning inquiry will not stop the building of the white horse 9. The author introduces Richard Bougie at the end of the passage ________. (A) for he es from Cheriton Hill, Folkestone (B) as he will go to the European courts to win the case (C) top reveal his hatred for the practice of eating horses (D) to show local people‘s support to the scheme 10. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? (A) The horse will be cut on the rocks covering Cheriton Hill. (B) Mot chalk horses in the UK were built in the last few centuries. (C) English Nature is firmly against the building of chalk horse on Cheriton Hill. (D) The example of the American visitor gives support to the building of the horse. Questions 11~15 ―EVERYTHING worth photographing I in California,‖ Edward Weston once said. Hi observation, however exaggerated, points up one of the distinguishing features of California photography: It began out of the need to depict a unique place. From its beginnings to the dot boom of our day, California has seemed to offer people a chance to make more money and enjoy more freedom than they could back home, together with a chance to lie in a natural paradise. The California Gold Rush of 1849 was the first major historical event to be fully documented by photographers。 Dorothea Lange‘s poor migrant workers became as classic an expression of life in California as Ansel Adams‘s mountains. All of these photographers worked with the camera as a tool, a surrogate eye‘ photography was not a force in itself, to be investigated by photographers. Today‘s California, long established as a center of the film and television industries, can no longer ignore the effect of its own images. Much of the state‘s recent artistic photography explores the implications of picturemaking itself. Against that background, Lynn Hershman‘s woman in high heels, with a TV set for a head, is an almost quintessential expression of the idea that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, are forming ourselves out of other people‘s pictures. ―Capturing Light‖ is at The Oakland Museum of California through May 27. A national tour is planned with venues to be announced. 11. The passage is mainly about ________. (A) the California Gold Rush of 1849 (B) the environmental pollution in California (C) the artistic features of California photography (D) the role of photography in development of California 12. Which of the following cannot be concluded about the exhibition ―Capturing Light‖? 11 (A) It includes works taken over the past one ad half centuries. (B) It shows the outstanding collection of the Oakland Museum of California. (C) It is selected from contributions from wellknown photographers. (D) It gives the documentation of historical changes in California 13. The socalled ―pictorial photograph‖ discussed in paragraph 5 was regarded as ________. (A) a record of the unique beauty on California (B) a protest against the negative side of industrialism (C) a depiction of change brought by science and technology (D) a portrayal of the ing of lootive and steel mill 14. According to the passage, which of the following in NOT directly intended by photographers in California? (A) To attract tourists and new settlers to California. (B) To document the natural beauty of California. (C) To record the