The first paragraph of the passage is used to （）.

[材料题] Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business! In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1, 248, 000. Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs”―a loose term given to everything from discarded(丢弃的) prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on. Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car t

单项选择题1.The first paragraph of the passage is used to （）.: A、remind readers of found photographs; B、advise reader to start a new kind of business; C、ask readers to find photographs behind sofa; D、show readers the value of found photographs

单项选择题2.The underlined word “them” in Para 4 refers to （）.: A、the readers; B、the editors; C、the found photographs; D、the self-published magazines

单项选择题3.By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate that ( ).: A、memory of the past is very important to people; B、found photographs allow people to think freely; C、the back-story of found photographs is puzzling; D、the real value of found photographs is questionable

单项选择题4.The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as （）.: A、critical; B、doubtful; C、optimistic; D、satisfied

单项选择题5.According to the passage, Joachim Schmid （）.: A、is fond of collecting family life photographs; B、found a complaining not under his car wiper; C、is working for several self-published magazines; D、wondered at the artistic nature of found photographs

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