created onto carriage windows using keys and knives.Unlike the vivid images of 40 years ago，these ghostly patterns are somehow easy to ignore.After all，graffiti has faded quietly into the background.

1.What led to the graffiti's sudden appearance in New York in the 1970s?

A.The publishment of Norman Mailer's essay on graffiti.

B.The development of science and art in New York.

C.The support and encouragement of the Mayor.

D.The worse economy in New York then.

2.In the 1970s，New York's graffiti artists .

A.often left their own names on their works

B.realized they were actually against the laws

C.organized a political movement

D.could only do graffiti on trains

3.What's Gregory Snyder's attitude towards graffiti?

A.Approving. B.Critical.

C.Objective. D.Negative.

4.Why did Mayor Ed Koch take measures to stop graffiti?

A.It didn't benefit most subway passengers.

B.It wasn't the art that Ed Koch was fond of.

C.It became out of date because of scratchiti.

D.Many citizens were not in favour of it.

5.What can we learn about graffiti from Paragraph 11?

A.It took 5 years to clean 80% of New York's graffiti.

B.Graffiti has evolved and is widely accepted now.

C.Graffiti evolution makes New York subways graffiti­free.

D.Graffiti now can appear not in carriages but in museums only.

6.By saying "graffiti has faded quietly into the background"，the author means that .

A.scratchiti won't last very long

B.graffiti won't gain its popularity again

C.graffiti isn't comparable with scratchiti

D.scratchiti will be well developed in the future

Ⅱ.佳作背诵(学校生活)

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