第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节(共20小题;每小题1.5 分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

It was just after sunrise on a June morning, “Nicolo,” whose real name cannot be to the public because of Italy's privacy laws, _ working the whole night at a factory in Turin. As he often did, he stopped by the “after work auction (拍卖)” by the Italian police where things on the trains were sold to the highest bidder. There, among many other things, Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look above his dining room table. Nicolo and another bidder until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.

When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he the paintings with him. He hung them above the same table he had from Turin. His son, age 15, who had an art appreciation class, thought that there was something 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 it, he only found “Bonnard, ”a French he had never heard of. He bought a book and was to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same as his father's painting

“That’s the garden in our picture. ”Nicolo'son told his father. They learned that the painting they was called “The Girl with Two Chairs.”They the other painting and learned that it was Paul Gauguin's “Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog.”The called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the paintings were and worth as much as $50 million.