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　　In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo.

　　The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837. That year, Daguerreotype, another Frenchmen, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his pictures you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest things. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype.

　　Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all around the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains.

　　In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of films and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked so hard.

　　Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were very lifelike.

　　Photography also become one kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed ideas and feelings, like other kinds of art.

1．The first photo taken by Niepce was a picture of ________.

2．The Daguerreotype was ________.

3．If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in the year of 1840, he had to ________.

4．Mathew Brady was famous for ________.

5．This passage mainly tells us ________.

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1．由第一自然段倒数第二句可知答案为his garden． 　　2．阅读第二自然段可知答案为a kind of photo. 　　3．由第四自然段的意思可知carry a lot of films and other machines. 　　4．his unusual pictures由文中的意思可知． 　　5．how man developed photography/how photography was developed.通览全文可知本文的中心思想是讲摄影术的发明过程．