题型：完形填空 题类：真题 难易度：困难
2020年高考英语真题试卷（新课标Ⅱ）（含听力音频）
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.
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