<p>2 Passages is about a self-made businessman named Lapham, who manufactures house paint. In the passage2 , Lapham is being interviewed by Bartley. </p>
<p>PS1:
ALthough I refer to a conifer guide when I'm cross-country skiing. I am still not trustworthy on the difference between a spruce and a fir. But let the smallest piece of commercial-pakaging trash appear along the trail and I can give you the species, genus, and phylum everytime
Much of the litter we bring with us into the wilderness is of mental variety: past a certain point, our minds really cannot grasp places that are completely trash-free. The grape-soda can drawing bees in the middle of a supposedly pristine wilderness campsite provokes our outrage and comfortable and disgust, of course. But underneath those feelings and less comfortable to admit, is a small amount of recognition and even relief. The soda can is us, after all. In 19th century, when the cult of the Scenic had just begun, advertisers (especially in New England) took to plastering giant advertising slogans on the scenery itself. HIKERS who reached lofty lookout points in the Adirodacks or the Berkshires would see the words "visit oak hall" on a rock face in the prospect before them . ( Oak Hall was a Boston clothing store). Even more remarkable is how fre of them seem to have complained)</p>
<p>PS2:
"In less'n six months there wasn't a board-fence, nor a bridge-girder, not a dead wall, nor a barn, nor a face of rock in that whole region that didn't have "Lampham's Mineral Paint-Specimen" on it in the three colors we begun by making".
Lapham continued:"I've heard a good deal of talk a bout that stove-blacking man and the kidney-cure man, because they advertised in theat way and I've read articles about it in the papers, but I don't see where the joke comes in. So long as the people that own the barns and fences don't object, I don't see what public has got to do with it. And I never saw anything so very sacred about a big rock, along a river, that it wouldn't do to put mineral paint on it in thre colors. I wish some of the PEOPLE that talk about landscape, and write about it had to bu'st one of them rocks out of the landscape with powder, or dig a hole to bury it in, as we used to have to do up on the farm: I guess they'd sing a little different tune about the profanation of scenery. They ain't any man enjoys a sightly bit of nature- a smooth pieve of interval with half a dozen good-sized wine-glass elms in it_ more than I do. I ain't a going stand up for every big ugly rock I come across, sd if we were all a set of dumn Druids. I say the landscape was made for man, and not man for landscape."
"Yes", said Bartley carelessly. "It was made for the stove-polish man and the kidney-cure man"
It was made for any man that knows how to use it". Lapham returned , insensible to Bartley's irony. </p>
<p>1)In contrast with the "Hikers", "the people" are: (I've put these words big font)
A. publicly hostile to the defacing of the landscape
B. openly amused by seeing stove-polish ads on rocks
C. exasperated by the public's disregard of their editorials
D. understading of the advertisers's need to promote their products
E. unaware of the revenure that advertising generates
2)Lapham's observations in P2 compared with the author's observations in P1 are
A. less sarcastic
B. less evenhanded
C. less accustatory
D. more resigned
E. more circumspect
3) Which is a belief expressed by Lapham in P2 that is not expressed by the author of P1?
A. That human occupy a privileged position in the natural world
B. That humans are only marginally concerned with preserving nature
C. That one can love natural beauty and still be influenced by Billboards.
D. That the effectiveness of advertising can be enhanced by its location
E. That people identify with the consumer goods that they produce. </p>
<p>1)A 2)B 3)A
These passages seems hard for me. I've read the 2 passages without nothing in my mind. I cannot tell the difference of the the author of P1 and Lapham of P2 :(((
Can you guys make a brief sum of these 2 passages?
Thanks in advanceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</p>