You are walking down the street, minding your own business when you see a snowba

You are walking down the street,minding your own business when you see a snowball. No big deal, right? Exceptthe snowball is as tall as you are. And weighs about a ton. Did we mention thatit is June?

   That’s theexperience thousand of Londoners had when they crossed paths with “ Snowball inSummer,” Goldsworthy makes sculpture （雕塑）from all sorts of things he finds outside –leaves, earth, and rocks, as well as ice and snow. He wanted to find out howbusy people would react to an unexpected snowball melting in their midst.

   During the winter of2008, he rolled 13 giant snowballs near his home in Scotland. He filled eachone with a surprise in the center – such as berries, feathers, little stones orsheep’s wool – which would appear as the snow melted. The finished snowballswere stored in a deep freeze until summer, then transported to London inrefrigerated trucks. At midnight on June 21, 2008, while the city slept,Goldsworthy and his helpers rolled their snowballs into place.

  People walking to work orschool must have thought the sky was falling when they stumbled acrosssnowballs the size of baby elephants. Some of them had never even seen snow inreal life, and they couldn’t help touching them in great surprise. As the snowstarted to melt, things got even more interesting. The perfectly roundsnowballs took on different shapes as the stuff inside began to poke through.Two days later, most of Goldsworthy’s snowballs were gone, and their fillingsscattered. But Londoners were left with a really good story about that oddsummer day when the snowball came.

1.What is really special about the snowballs is that______________________.

A. they lie in the street

B. they are in the shape of babyelephants.

C. they have berries, feathers,little stones and feathers in them.

D. they appear in June.

2. What was the purpose of Goldsworthy in making the snowballs?

A. To find out people’s reactionsto them

B. To call up people’s memory ofthe cold winter.

C. To show off his skills insculpture.

D. To let people experience thecold winter.

3. Why did Goldsworthy and his helpers roll their snowballs intoplace at mid-night?

A. They didn’t want to disturbother people.

B. It was quite at that time.

C. They wanted to avoid thetraffic jam.

D, They wanted to give people a surprise.

试题答案

【答案】

1.D2.A3.D

【解析】略