2014届高考英语考前突破阅读理解能力：《美国男子138美元抽奖获得百万毕加索画作》.docVIP

美国男子138美元抽奖获得百万毕加索画作 据美国媒体12月20日报道，一名男子花138美元参加抽奖活动，最终赢得了价值100万美元的毕加索画作。 ? A man looking for art for his new home has won a $1 million Picasso painting with a $138 raffle ticket（彩券）.? Jeffrey Gonano told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review hes not sure hell ever hang the masterpiece in his home in Wexford, in western Pennsylvania, given its value. ? The 25-year-old Gonano, who works for his familys fire sprinkler（喷洒灭火器） business, learned Wednesday that his ticket had won the Paris raffle. Organizers say nearly 50,000 tickets were sold worldwide, for 100 euros apiece, to benefit a Lebanese charity. ? The 1914 work, Man in the Opera Hat, dates from Spanish master Pablo Picassos cubist（立体派的）period. Picasso died in 1973.? Gonano said he wants to keep the artwork, which features vivid shapes in opaque（不透明的） gouache（水粉画） paint. ? Maybe Ill lend it to a museum and let them put it on display rather than putting it in a vault, so other people can enjoy it, he told the newspaper. It all depends. I dont know what the taxes are or anything. ? Gonanos girlfriend, Gloria Spataro, said he liked the odds in the contest and felt optimistic. Nonetheless, she presumed he was joking when he said hed won. ? He thought the odds were actually pretty good compared to something like a lottery, said Spataro, of Pittsburgh. He said, This will be my only chance to actually own something like this. ? The raffle raised about $3.5 million for the International Association for the Safeguard of Tyr, a UNESCO heritage site, said Reem Chalabi, an education coordinator with the group. ? Gonano and Spataro had recently begun to explore art galleries, and she had bought him a photograph by a Buddhist artist for Christmas. ? Im glad I actually gave it to him before, she said, because if I gave it to him afterward, that would look pretty insignificant compared to a Picasso.