D．Kibsey's home town is beautiful in winter

　　解析：选A　推理判断题。由第二段可知，Roxanna Kibsey的画作描述了画家家乡冬天一片肃杀的景象，反映了她的童年生活。

　　8．What does the underlined part "elevator pitch" probably refer to?

　　A．A sales introduction.

　　B．A wise choice.

　　C．A small mistake.

　　D．A modern tool.

　　解析：选A　词义猜测题。分析最后一段，商人的"elevator pitch"就等同于画家的"30­second story"，是一种"产品推介"，用来吸引买家。

　　C

　　For many people, moths (飞蛾) are dust­colored pests that eat our clothes and disturb us by flying around lights after dark. Not for artist Joseph Scheer. The pictures he creates bring out the beauty of moths, with colors, shapes, and patterns that have never been seen before so clearly. "Digital tools let you see things you'd never see just looking with your eyes，" Scheer says. Scheer's pictures have been displayed around the world, and one reaction is heard everywhere："People insist, 'No, that can't be a moth，'" says Scheer.

　　Scheer's work began with a moth hunt in the state of New York. Scheer would leave the lights on and the windows open overnight at his university office, and then collect the moths that had flown in. When the building cleaners at the university complained, he moved the hunt to his friend Mark Klingensmith's yard. They set up two lights shining over a plastic container on a white sheet. Then moths appeared from the darkness, flew into the sheet, and fell into the plastic container. "We got a different species every night，" Scheer says. "The patterns and colors were unbelievable."

　　After the hunt, they used a powerful scanner to get detailed pictures of moths. Small moths presented special challenges.

　　The scanner records so much information that a single moth can take 20 minutes to scan. A scan of just two small moths fills an entire CD. All that information means the size of the picture can be increased by 2,700 percent but still keep all the details and appear perfectly clear. You'd need a microscope to see the details shown in Scheer's prints.

　　Scheer's work is not only a new form of art. He has also made a valuable contribution to the record of the moths around him. He has helped identify more than a thousand different species. "Not from Alaska or the Amazon，" Klingensmith says. "All from one backyard."

语篇解读：本文主要讲述了纽约艺术家Scheer采集不同种类的飞蛾标本，并制作高