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Text 1 The longest bull run in a century

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问题 Text 1 The longest bull run in a century of artmarket history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst,Beautiful Inside My Head Forever,at Sotheby's in London on September 15th,2008.All but two pieces sold,fetching more than￡70m,a record for a sale by a single artist.It was a last victory.As the auctioneer called out bids,in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street,Lehman Brothers,filed for bankruptcy.The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003.At its peak in 2007 it was worth some$65 billion,reckons Clare McAndrew,founder of Arts Economics,a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.Since then it may have come down to$50 billion.But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth,enormous egos,greed,passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst's sale,spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable.In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms.Sales of contemporary art fell by twothirds,and in the most overheated sector,they were down by nearly 90%in the year to November 2008.Within weeks the world's two biggest auction houses,Sotheby's and Christie's,had to pay out nearly$200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989.This time experts reckon that prices are about 40%down on their peak on average,though some have been far more fluctuant.But Edward Dolman,Christie's chief executive,says:“I'm pretty confident we're at the bottom.”What makes this slump different from the last,he says,is that there are still buyers in the market.Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.The three Ds—death,debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market.But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away,waiting for confidence to return.The most appropriate title for this text could be____A.Fluctuation of Art PricesB.Uptodate Art AuctionsC.Art Market in DeclineD.Shifted Interest in Arts
选项 A.Fluctuation of Art Prices
B.Uptodate Art Auctions
C.Art Market in Decline
D.Shifted Interest in Arts
答案 C
解析 主旨题【命题思路】给文章加标题是常见的文章主旨题考查的方式之一。从这篇文章的整体结构来看，段落与段落之间并没有出现明显的转折，因此主旨贯穿全篇文章。考生可以总结每一段的段落大意，然后进行概括总结。【直击答案】本文第一段以赫斯特作品的大卖引出文章的讨论话题，即艺术品市场的低迷与衰退；第二段介绍了艺术品市场在经历了牛市后的衰落；第三、四段分别讨论了当前的艺术品市场形势，并在最后一段对未来趋势做出了预测。因此最合适的标题为C项“艺术品市场的衰退”。【干扰排除】虽然第二段第二、三句提到“价格波动”，但属于细节内容，以偏概全，因此排除A项。B项中的uptodate和文中的contemporary是同义词，文章第一段提及拍卖会是为了引出讨论话题，B项不具有概括性。文章提到艺术品收藏者远离了画廊和拍卖会现场是因为艺术品市场的不景气。D项与原文内容不符，故排除。长难句解析
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