第一节 （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

It was just after sunrise on a June morning. “Nicolo,” whose real name cannot be   41   to the public because of Italy’s privacy laws,   42   working the whole night at a factory in Turin. As he often did, he stopped by the “after work auction”   43   by the Italian police where things   44   on the trains were sold to the highest bidder. There, among many other things, Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look   45        above his dining room table. Nicolo and another bidder   46   until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.

When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he   47   the paintings with him. He hung them above the same table he had   48   from Turin. His son, age 15, who had   49   an art appreciation class, thought that there was something   50   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   51   it, he only found “Bonnard," a French   52   he had never heard of. He bought a book and was   53   to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same   54   as his father’s painting.

"That’s the garden in our picture,"Nicolo’s son told his father. They   55   learned that the painting they   56        was called "The Girl with Two Chairs." They   57   the other painting and learned that it was   58   Paul Gauguin’s “Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog." The   59   called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the paintings were   60   and worth as much as million.