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晨读完形真题——完形语篇是最具发掘价值的语料库
It was just after sunrise on a June morning.“Nicolo,” whose real name cannot be exposed to the public because of Italy’s privacy laws, finished working the whole night at a factory in Turin.As he often did, he stopped by the “after work auction (拍卖)” run by the Italian police where things found on the trains were sold to the highest bidder. There, among many other things, Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look nice above his dining room table.__1__
When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he brought the paintings with him.__2__ His son, age 15, who had taken an art appreciation class, thought that there was something unusual about the one with a young girl sitting on a garden chair.It was signed (签名)“Bonnato” or so he thought, but when he researched it, he only found “Bonnard,” a French painter he had never heard of.__3__
“That’s the garden in our picture,” Nicolo’s son told his father.__4__They studied the other painting and lear