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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.By saying“spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable”（Para.3）,the author suggests that____A.collectors were no longer actively involved in artmarket auctionsB.people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleries C.art collection as a fashion had lost its appeal to a great extentC.works of art in general had gone out of fash
选项 A.collectors were no longer actively involved in artmarket auctions
B.people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleries C.art collection as a fashion had lost its appeal to a great extent
C.works of art in general had gone out of fash
答案 A
解析 推理题【命题思路】这是一道句意推理题，属于封闭式推理题。句意推理题和词义推理题一样，需要借助上下文的信息进行推理解答。首先将短语定位到原文中后再根据所在文本进行推理。本题考查的是代词指代。【直击答案】根据题干定位到文章第三段第一句话“in the weeks and months that…deeply unfashionable”。紧接着第二句话“in the art world that meant…”中that充当代词，指代第一句话的内容，因此meant后面的内容是对第一句话的解释，其意思是：在艺术收藏界里这就意味着收藏者们会远离画廊和拍卖会场。这一信息与A项“收藏者们不再积极参与到艺术平市场的拍卖会中”一致，因此为正确选项。【干扰排除】B项中的“停止各种花销”是对题干的过度推理。文章第三段第三句话中提到“sales of contemporary art fell by twothirds”，其含义是说当代艺术品的销售量下降了三分之二，这与选项中提到的“停止各种花销”不相符，其表述过于绝对。C项在文中并未提及，题干并未提及有关吸引力的方面。D项是对题干字面意思的理解，而没有结合句子所在的文本语境，属于望文生义。
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