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2020年全国新课标卷2 A painting worth as much as $50 million 文章导读:本文是记叙文,主题语境为人与社会,主题语境内容为文化遗产。意大利一位保密级人物偶然以32美元的价格竞拍得到了两幅画,多年后才发现其中的一幅画竟然是法国著名画家保罗·高更的原作。本文旨在培养学生的文化意识。 It was just after sunrise on a June morning. “Nicolo,” whose real name cannot be exposed to 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. Nicolo and another bidder battled until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32. When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he held the paintings with him. He hung them above the same table he had moved from Turin. 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. He bought a book and was surprised to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same chair as his father’s painting. “That’s the garden in our picture,”Nicolo’s son told his father. They eventually learned that the painting they owned was called "The Girl with Two Chairs." They studied the other painting and learned t hat it was actually Paul Gauguin’s “Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog." The family called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the paintings were originals and worth as much as $50 million. New words and expressions 生词和短语 1.expose [ɪk 'spəʊz vt. 揭露；暴露 2. bid [bɪd] v./ n. 出价，投标 3.spot [spɔt] n. 污点；场所，地点 v. 弄脏；发现；注意到 4.battle [ 'bæt(ə)l] v. 与...较量；搏斗 n.战斗；战役 5.win (won, won) [wɪn] vt.. 获胜，赢得 6.hang (hung, hung) [hæŋ] v.悬挂，吊着；把……吊起 7.retire [rɪ 'taɪə(r)] v.