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主题语境(二) 绘画、建筑等领域的代表性作品和人物
(2020·全国卷Ⅱ·完形填空)
It was just after sunrise on a June morning.“Nicolo,”whose real name cannot be 1 to the public because of Italy's privacy laws, 2 working the whole night at a factory in Turin.As he often did,he stopped by the“after work auction(拍卖)” 3 by the Italian police where things 4 on the trains were sold to the highest bidder.There,among many other things,Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look 5 above his dining room table.Nicolo and another bidder 6 until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.
When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily,he 7 the paintings with him.He hung them above the same table he had 8 from Turin.His son,age 15,who had 9 an art appreciation class,thought that there was something 10 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 11 it,he only found“Bonnard,”a French 12 he had never heard of.He bought a book and was 13 to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same 14 as his father's painting.
“That's the garden in our picture,”Nicolo's son told his father.They 15 learned that the painting they 16 was called“The Girl with Two Chairs.”They 17 the other painting and learned that it was 18 Paul Gauguin's“Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog.”The 19 called the Italian Culture Ministry;the official confirmed that the Paintings were 20 and worth as much as $50 million.
【语篇解读】 工人“Nicolo”无意中在意大利警察所经营的拍卖会上得到了两幅画,最后经过鉴定两幅画都是大师的原作,价值不菲。
1.A.attached
B.allocated
C.exposed
D.submitted
C [根据下文的“because of Italy's privacy laws”可知主人公的真名是隐私的、不可透露的。attach“系”;allocate“分配”;expose“揭露,暴露”;submit“提交”。]
2.A.finished
B.delayed
C.considered
D.tried
A [根据下文的“after work auction(拍卖)”可知他是工作结束后去的拍卖会。]
3.A.attended
B.reserved
C.cancelled
D.run
D [根据语境,应该是意大利警察所经营的一个拍卖会。attend“出席,上(学)”;reserve“预订”;canc