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朗朗晨读(二十)2020·全国卷Ⅱ·完形填空·价值词汇发掘
三遍而熟·背出语感——(第一遍,做题;第二遍,代入答案诵读;第三遍,带空诵读,凭语感顺出答案)
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.
1.A.attached B.allocated
C.exposed D.submitted
2.A.finished B.delayed
C.considered D.tried
3.A.attended B.reserved
C.cancelled D.run
4.A.shown B.found
C.kept D.hidden
5.A.nice B.familiar
C.useful D.real
6.A.battled B.debated
C.discussed D.bargained
7.A.held B.left
C.registered D.brought
8.A.chosen B.received
C.ordered D.moved
9.A.misse