Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

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 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 found photographs. One of _ , called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper an angry note intended for some else: "Why's your car HERE at HER place?" The note became the starting point for Rothbard's addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such a poster discovered in our drawer.

The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such Richard Prince, may riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It's anyone's guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated , we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we've gone?

In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.

1. what is topic of the article in general?
2. how much did untitled cowboy sell for?
3. who left rothbard a note?
4. why are found photos so fascinating?
5. where might you find found photos?
6. who founded simply found?
7. what year was untitled cowboy taken?
8. who was it taken by?
9. who is another artist mentioned?
10. what does he collect?
11. since when?
12. what is his current project?
13. what is his strategy to organizing it?
14. like what for example?
15. do people think this is art?
16. how many questions does this raise?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. found photographs
2. $ 1, 248, 000
3. unknown
4. they give our minds an opportunity to wander freely
5. in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger's family album.
6. Davy Rothbard
7. 2005
8. Richard Prince
9. Joachim Schmid
10. discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images
11. 1982
12. Archiv
13. according to themes
14. people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
15. It's anyone's guess
16. Four

Question: CHAPTER XVIII

WILDCAT AND WATER

Dave was both startled and alarmed when the wildcat came down almost on top of his bare head, and even more frightened when the beast made a leap for his naked shoulder. He had had several experiences with wildcats and knew them to be both powerful and bloodthirsty.

By instinct more than reason he dived and went down as far as possible. As soon as the water closed over the wildcat's head it let go its hold and began to swim for the shore.

Henry was directly in the path of the beast and in a second more, ere the young soldier had time to think of diving, the wildcat was on his back, sinking its cruel nails deeply into his flesh.

"Get off!" screamed Henry. "Get off! Help! help!"

And then he went down, not because he thought of doing so, but because he could not bear the weight. The stream closed over him and he went directly to the bottom.

This time the wildcat did not let go its hold. It clung desperately and when Henry tried to shake it off it only sunk its nails deeper into his flesh. Mechanically he started to scream, when the water rushed into his mouth, almost strangling him on the spot.

By this time Dave had reached the surface, and the rings and bubbles showed him plainly where Henry and the wildcat had gone down. With swift strokes he swam to the river bank, just as several rangers came running to the scene. 1. Who was underwater?
2. What put him there?
3. Did he fall on purpose?
4. Why then?
5. Was it in a lake?
6. What then?
7. Did the cat release him or keep a grip underwater?
8. What caused it to grip tighter?
9. Were they floating?
10. Was anyone else there?
11. Was he calm when the attack happened?
12. Had he seen cats before?
13. Only once?
14. What did he know about them?
15. What was his automatic response?
16. What was Henry's occupation?
17. What did he tell the cat to do?
18. What caused him to choke?
19. How could Dave tell where they were underwater?
20. Who finally got there? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Henry
2. the wildcat
3. No
4. because he could not bear the weight.
5. No
6. The stream
7. No
8. Henry tried to shake it off
9. No
10. Dave
11. No
12. Yes
13. No
14. to be both powerful and bloodthirsty
15. he dived and went down
16. soldier
17. Get off
18. the water rushed into his mouth
19. bubbles
20. several rangers

Q: CHAPTER VI.

NOT IN LOVE.

Reginald Morton, as he walked across the bridge towards the house, was thoroughly disgusted with all the world. He was very angry with himself, feeling that he had altogether made a fool of himself by his manner. He had shown himself to be offended, not only by Mr. Twentyman, but by Miss Masters also, and he was well aware, as he thought of it all, that neither of them had given him any cause of offence. If she chose to make an appointment for a walk with Mr. Lawrence Twentyman and to keep it, what was that to him? His anger was altogether irrational, and he knew that it was so. What right had he to have an opinion about it if Mary Masters should choose to like the society of Mr. Twentyman? It was an affair between her and her father and mother in which he could have no interest; and yet he had not only taken offence, but was well aware that he had shown his feeling.

Nevertheless, as to the girl herself, he could not argue himself out of his anger. It was grievous to him that he should have gone out of his way to ask her to walk with him just at the moment when she was expecting this vulgar lover,--for that she had expected him he felt no doubt. Yet he had heard her disclaim any intention of walking with the man! But girls are sly, especially when their lovers are concerned. It made him sore at heart to feel that this girl should be sly, and doubly sore to think that she should have been able to love such a one as Lawrence Twentyman.

1. towards the house
2. the bridge
3. no
4. Reginald Morton
5. He was very angry with himself
6. he felt he had made a fool of himself
7. his manner
8. Mr. Twentyman and Miss Masters
9. no
10. no
11. Mary and her father and mother
12. yes
13. to walk with him
14. no
15. she was expecting this vulgar lover
16. yes
17. no
18. sore at heart
19. Lawrence Twentyman

Numbered questions:
1. Where was he walking?
2. What was he walking across?
3. Was he in a good mood?
4. and what is his name?
5. Was he happy with himself?
6. why?
7. By what?
8. Who had he shown that he was offended?
9. Had they given him reason to be upset?
10. Did he feel he should have been upset?
11. Who did he feel the affair should have been between?
12. Had he shown how he felt?
13. What had he asked her to do with him?
14. Did she go with him?
15. Why?
16. Did he think she was expecting him?
17. Did she admit to expecting him?
18. How did it make him feel that he thought she was being deceitful to him?
19. Who did she walk with?