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Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there’s a natural impulse(冲动) to want to own and ...
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Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there’s a natural impulse(冲动) to want to own and preserve it — which means, in this day and age, that we’re likely to reach for our phones to take a picture.
Though this would seem to be an ideal solution, there are two big problems associated with taking pictures. Firstly, we’re likely to be so busy taking the pictures that we forget to look at the world whose beauty and interest drove us to take a photograph in the first place. And secondly, because we feel the pictures are safely stored on our phones, we never get around to looking at them, so sure are we that we’ll get around to it one day.
These problems were noticed right at the beginning of the history of photography, when the average camera was the size of a grandfather clock. The first person to notice them was the English art critic, John Ruskin. He was a traveler who realized that most tourists make a boring job of noticing or remembering the beautiful things they see. He argued that humans have a natural tendency to respond to beauty and wish to have it, but that there are better and worse expressions of this desire. At worst, we get into buying souvenirs or taking photographs. But, in Ruskin’s eyes, there’s one thing we should do and that is attempt to draw the interesting things we see, no matter whether we have any talent for doing so.
Ruskin was very upset by how seldom people notice details. He strongly disliked the travelers who prided themselves on covering Europe in a week by train. “If he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.”
1.People are eager to take pictures at seeing something beautiful because ___________.
A. it’s human’s born desire of owning B. it’s convenient to do so with a mobile phone
C. they are used to hurrying for everything D. they cannot wait to share it with friends
2.When taking pictures, people may ___________.
A. find a good way to store good memories in their minds
B. feel it hard to learn the skills of taking good photos
C. ignore appreciating something attractive on the spot
D. have chances to meet the challenge of new technology
3.According to the last paragraph,travelling people are usually proud of ___________.
A. the long distance that they have covered
B. the happy hours that they have gone through
C. the advanced transport tool that they have taken
D. the great convenience that they have been offered
4.We can conclude that Rustin attached importance to ___________.
A. travelling around the world B. taking beautiful photos with a camera
C. taking photos instead of painting pictures D. admiring the world’s beauty attentively
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