The influence of the local-field on the photoabsorption cross section of the atomic silver is studied in detail by using the Clausius-Mossotti(CM)model and the Onsager model separately.The variations of the photoabsorption cross section of atomic silver with number density and radius of the environmental interaction cavity are studied systematically by using more general expressions for the photoabsorption cross sections,proposed by Sun et al recently.It has proved to be reasonable to model the optical response properties of bulky material by coupling the property of isolated atom with the environmental effccts in the present work.