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1、请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸/卡上将该项涂黑。AWant to pick up an impressive piece of artwork from the comfort of your sofa? Check out our pick of art dealers and upcoming auctions （拍卖） online.FOREST GALLERYFor the past four decades, West Sussex based Forest Gallery has shown a selection of m

2、odern and traditional artwork from both British and international artists. Hundreds of artworks are available to purchase online, with free UK delivery for purchases over 250. SISTER7The very first womens gallery in Darwin, Australia, Sister7 is an Aboriginal womens art gallery that features painted

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4、focuses on eye-catching modern pieces from new New York artists. It features a varied media collection from works on paper to large-size sculptures, plus an Art Under $800 section for those new to art or looking for a range for gifting. IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ARTSothebys London online auction featur

5、es paintings, sculptures and works on paper from 19th- and 20th-century artists. Browse and bid （投标） via Sothebys website or app at 1pm on 7 April. Theres also a Buy Now section for those who prefer not to bid. MODERN BRITISH & 20TH CENTURY ARTExpect to be overwhelmed （压倒） by the choice of Modern Br

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8、rchase via .B. You will purchase whatever artworks you want at sister7.gallery.C. MODERN BRITISH & 20TH CENTURY AR Tisa good choice to purchase a gift. MODERN ART offers customers who dont like bid another choice.24. Whats the purpose of the text?A. To persuade readers to purchase artwork.B. To reco

9、mmend popular artworks to readers.C. To introduce art online and auctions offline.D. To give readers information to pick up artworks.25. Where can you probably find the article?A. On the art website. B. In a book review. C. In a travel journal. D. In a fashion magazine.BOn the first night of the pol

10、ice curfew （宵禁） in Minneapolis last summer, Rose McGee could hardly sleep. “People I know were out on the streets,” says the 69-year-old resident of nearby Golden Valley. “I was worried.”McGee decided to stay up the following night and bake sweet potato pies. She doesnt really like to cook, but in d

11、ifficult times she often turns her kitchen into a pastry （糕点） factory. This time, she also went on Face book to invite others to drop by, pick up a pie, and take it to someone in need of comfortor at least, comfort food. In the morning, dozens of neighbors gathered around McGees front porch （门厅）. Ma

12、ny had brought their own homemade pies to share. “It was amazing,” McGee says. Together, they delivered their baked goods first to mourners （哀悼者） at George Floyds memorial site, just 14 miles away, and then to volunteers at the Minneapolis branch of the NAACP. The following weekend, they took dozens

13、 more to a temporary food delivery center in St. Paul, where many grocery stores had been destroyed. Sadly, McGee has made Sweet Potato Comfort Pies, as she calls them, all too often in recent years. She originally baked her pies in 2014, after news broke of unrest （动荡） in Ferguson, Missouri, follow

14、ing the police killing of Michael Brown. McGee drove more than 500 miles to Ferguson to personally deliver the 30 pies she had made. The next year, she shipped more to Charleston, South Carolina, where nine people going to church had been shot dead at the Mother Emanuel AME Church. In 2018, she sent

15、 pies to Pittsburgh in the wake of the Tree of Life shooting for the religious reasons. Tragedy also struck closer to home. McGees pies comforted those in and around Minneapolis after police officers shot Jamar Clark in 2015 and Philan do Castile in 2016. McGee, who works for the Minnesota Humanities Center, an educational council and community resource, also hosts an annual pie-baking event to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.the group made 91 this year, to mark the age he would have been if h