  Infrared asymptotic behaviour of a scalar field, passively advected by a
random shear flow, is studied by means of the field theoretic renormalization
group and the operator product expansion. The advecting velocity is Gaussian,
white in time, with correlation function of the form $\propto \delta(t-t') /
k_{\bot}^{d-1+\xi}$, where $k_{\bot}=|{\bf k}_{\bot}|$ and ${\bf k}_{\bot}$ is
the component of the wave vector, perpendicular to the distinguished direction
(`direction of the flow') --- the $d$-dimensional generalization of the
ensemble introduced by Avellaneda and Majda [{\it Commun. Math. Phys.} {\bf
131}: 381 (1990)]. The structure functions of the scalar field in the infrared
range exhibit scaling behaviour with exactly known critical dimensions. It is
strongly anisotropic in the sense that the dimensions related to the directions
parallel and perpendicular to the flow are essentially different. In contrast
to the isotropic Kraichnan's rapid-change model, the structure functions show
no anomalous (multi)scaling and have finite limits when the integral turbulence
scale tends to infinity. On the contrary, the dependence of the internal scale
(or diffusivity coefficient) persists in the infrared range. Generalization to
the velocity field with a finite correlation time is also obtained. Depending
on the relation between the exponents in the energy spectrum ${\cal E} \propto
k_{\bot}^{1-\epsilon}$ and in the dispersion law $\omega \propto
k_{\bot}^{2-\eta}$, the infrared behaviour of the model is given by the limits
of vanishing or infinite correlation time, with the crossover at the ray
$\eta=0$, $\epsilon>0$ in the $\epsilon$--$\eta$ plane. The physical
(Kolmogorov) point $\epsilon=8/3$, $\eta=4/3$ lies inside the domain of
stability of the rapid-change regime; there is no crossover line going through
this point.
