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请阅读Passage 2。完成第小题。 Passage 2 In the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia, one sce...

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问题 请阅读Passage 2。完成第小题。
Passage 2
In the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia, one scene shows an American newspaper reporter
eagerly snapping photos of men looting a sabotaged train. One of the looters, Chief Auda abu Tayi of the I-Ioweitat clan, suddenly notices the camera and snatches it."Am I in this?" he asks, before smashing it open. To the dismayed reporter, Lawrence explains,"He thinks these things will steal his virtue. He thinks you're a kind of thief."
As soon as colonizers and explorers began taking cameras into distant lands, stories began circulating about how indigenous peoples saw them as tools for black magic. The "ignorant natives" may have had a point. When photography first became available, scientists welcomed it as a more objective way of recording faraway societies than early travelers' exaggerated accounts. But in some ways, anthropological photographs reveal more about the cu|ture that holds the camera than the one that stares back. Up into the 1950s and 1960s, many ethnographers sought"pure" pictures of"primitive" cultures, routinely deleting modern accoutrements such as clocks and Western dress.
They paid men and women to re-enact rituals or to pose as members of war or hunting parties, often with little regard for veracity. Edward Curtis, the legendary photographer of North American Indians, for example, got one Makah man to pose as a whaler with a spear in 1915--even though the Makah had not hunted whales in a generation.
These photographs reinforced widely accepted stereotypes that indigenous cultures were isolated, primitive, and unchanging. For instance, National Geographic magazine's photographs have taught millions of Americans about other cultures. As Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins point out in their 1993 book Reading National Geographic, the magazine since its founding in 1888 has kept a tradition of presenting beautiful photos that don't challenge white, middle-class American conventions. While dark-skinned women can be shown without tops, for example, white women's breasts are taboo. Photos that could unsettle or disturb, such as areas of the world torn asunder by war or famine, are discarded in favor of those that reassure, to conform with the society's stated pledge to present only"kindly" visions of foreign societies. The result, Lutz and Collins say, is the depiction of "an idealized and exotic world relatively free of pain or class conflict."
Lutz actually likes National Geographic a lot. She read the magazine as a child, and its lush imagery influenced her eventual choice of anthropology as a career. She just thinks that as people look at the photographs of other cultures, they should be alert to the choice of composition and images.

The author mentions the movie Lawrence of Arabia to__________.
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选项 A．show how people in the indigenous societies are portrayed by Westerners
B．illustrate how people from primitive societies see cameras as tools of black magic that steal their virtues
C．show how anthropologists portray untruthful pictures of native people
D．show the cruel and barbarian side of the native people
答案B
解析文章的第一段介绍的是电影《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》中的一个片段。作者通过电影中的场景来说明原始社会里的人们对现代的文明和从没见过的现代文明的产物容易产生误解。电影中的土著抢走了劳伦斯的照相机。因为他怀疑，那从未见过的玩意儿会偷走他的美好品德。
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