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21、根据下面内容,回答21-35题:
Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, Cand D.Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening thecorresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
On the anniversary of the artist's birth, Van Gogh's Sunflowers was 21for just under £25 million at the fine art auctioneers (怕迈商), Christie's, in London. The 22 was triple the previous record of£ 8 million paid in 1985 for Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi. At least ten bidders23 for the painting, half 24 telephone, anonymously battling it out in leaps of ~500,000.
Van Gogh wrote in a letter of 1889 that one of these Scots or Americans 25to pay 500 francs--about £ 25 at that time -- for 26 a painting.
Christie's chairman 27reporters after the sale, "it's a rare picture. " A spokesman for the firm added, "It's fantastic. " Not 28who was at the auction agreed.One commented, " More money29sense. "
Many people do 30 uneasy that a picture could be auctioned for such an unbelievable sum.
They find distasteful the contrast 31this sort of money and the impoverished life of the painter 32Van Gogh, once a lay preacher among the miners of Belgium, was more 33 in producing work that dignified labor than he was in selling for a profit.Depressive, poor, unrecognized and 34 suicidal, he remains a romantic figure in the public 35.
A.bought
B.sold
C.displayed
D.shown
22、
A.price
B.money
C.sum
D.collection
23、
A.competed
B.shouted
C.fought
D.argued
24、
A.on
B.under
C.off
D.by
25、
A.must
B.might
C.ought
D.could
26、
A.so
B.this
C.very
D.such
27、
A.said
B.spoke
C.told
D.agreed
28、
A.all
B.everyone
C.none
D.anyone
29、
A.to
B.than
C.better
D.over
30、
A.felt
B.think
C.feel
D.thought
31、
A.between
B.among
C.of
D.like
32、
A.his own
B.him
C.Own
D.himself
33、
A.upset
B.interested
C.happy
D.gloomy
34、
A.eventually
B.finally
C.last
D.at end
35、
A.mind
B.brain
C.thought
D.imagination