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2020 年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十九) Passage1世界名画失踪多年重见天日。    Apaintingwasfoundhidden in awall of an Italian museum.Itwasauthenticated asa Gustav Klimt work that was stolen from the same gallery in 1997.It wasreportedthat Klimt’sPortrait of a Lady was owned by the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art in 1925, with only the painting’s frame foundontheroofofthemuseum. Investigations into the 1917 work, which is worth at about $66 million today, stopped over the next few decades. The break came by chance last month, when a museum gardener clearing ivy from a wall opened a metal access panel and discovered the painting inside. It was put in a plastic bag. Experts finally confirmed that the painting was not fake, and officials in Piacenza wheretheRicci Oddiislocatedannouncedthenews. Its with no small emotion that I can tell you the work is authentic, Piacenza Prosecutor Ornella Chicca said.An authenticator in Bologna said the painting is still in very good condition, having only suffered a scratch on an edge,possibly from a silly effort to remove theportrait from its frame.officials saidX-rays aided in the authentication process, showing that Portrait of a Lady hadbeenpainted onthetop ofanotherportrait. As for why the painting had been stored within a wall, Anne Marie OConnor, a journalist who had written about another of Klimt’s paintings, said that the thief knew it would be too difficult to sellthepainting during the investigation at that time andperhapsplannedtoreturn one day andretrieveit.Theportraithasbeenheldin Italy’scentralbank duringtheinvestigation. 1.Whowasthekeyperson to solvethecase? A Experts. B Officialsin Piacenza. C Amuseum gardener. D Theowner oftheRicciOddiGallery. 2.What canweinfer fromthelastparagraph? A NowthepaintingbelongstoItaly’scentra