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2010年阅读理解A 部分真题文本精讲资料（含翻译解析和重点词汇）Text1 ①The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s in LondononSeptember 15th 2008.②All but two pieces sold,fetching more than ￡70m,a record for a sale by a single artist.③ It was a last victory.④As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks onWall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy. 真题重点词汇及短语： bull run:牛市；bull公牛；run在这里做名词，表示一种状态的持续； end with sth: 以什么结束； on a ...note：以什么样的氛围；note在这里表示氛围。 drama （名词，戏剧）-dramatic （戏剧性的） at Sothebys:在苏富比拍卖行；英语里面at sbs表示地方，在某人的店铺里，在某人家里； all but sth:除了某物，所有的都...all but two peices sold all sold but two pieces 除 了两件，其余都卖了 fetch:获得，取得 record:在这里表示拍卖记录 single artist:这里表示单个艺术家，而不是单身的艺术家； victory:胜利 auction(拍卖）-auctioneer （拍卖商） call out：喊出 bid:这里用作名词，表示标价，出价 file for：申请 bank-rupt-cy:破产，倒闭 切分： 第一句： 1. The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note 2. with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, 3. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008. 参考翻译：2008年 9月15 日，在伦敦苏富比拍卖行举行的 “美永驻我脑海”拍卖会上，随着 达米安.赫斯特的56幅作品被拍卖，艺术品市场长达一个世纪之久的牛市戏剧性地落幕了。 第二句： 1. All sold but two pieces , 2. fetching more than ￡70m, 3. a record for a sale by a single artist. 参考翻译：除两件作品以外，其余作品全部被拍卖出 第四句： 1. As the auctioneer called out bids, 2. one of the oldest banks onWall Street in New York filed for bankruptcy. 3. , Lehman Brothers, 参考翻译：就在拍卖师喊出报价的同时，纽约华尔街历史上最悠久的银行之一雷曼兄弟，宣告 破产了。 ①The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003. ②At 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. ③Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. ④But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great