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2021年全国硕士研究生招生考试 2021年（Text 1） 本文主旨大意： 单词数量（约）：390 文章用时： 正确率： I--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 London on September 15th 2008 I--②All but two pieces sold, fetching more than ￡70 million, a record for a sale by a single artist. I--③It was a last victory I--④As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy II--①The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003. II--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. II--③Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. 198 II-- ④But 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. Ⅲ--①In the weeks and months that followed Mr. Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. Ⅲ--②In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Ⅲ--③Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Ⅲ--④Within weeks the world’s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, had to pay out nearly $200 million in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them. Ⅳ--①The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989. Ⅳ--②This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have