After three years of precise analysis, X-rays and infra-red (红外线的) imagi

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问题       After three years of precise analysis, X-rays and infra-red (红外线的) imaging, experts claim to have uncovered the only surviving portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his life. The canvas (油画) is thought to have been painted in 1610—six years before the playwright’s death— when he was about 46 years old.
      For three centuries the family who kept it was【C1】_______of the identity of the figure in the portrait. According to Alec Cobbe, an art restorer (做修复工作的人), at one【C2】_______it had been thought to be of Sir Walter Raleigh. In 2006, he visited the National Portrait Gallery and saw a painting of Shakespeare that【C3】_______in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington. It had been【C4】_______as a life portrait of Shakespeare, but was denied 70 years ago. Mr. Cobbe saw the painting and realized the【C5】_______with the painting he had【C6】_______.
      Believing his painting to be the【C7】_______, he contacted Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, who was【C8】_______skeptical (怀疑的). Prof. Wells said, "My first impression was skepticism—I am a scholar. But my【C9】_______has grown with the amount of evidence about the painting. I am willing to go 90 percent of the way to declaring my confirmation that this is the only life time portrait of Shakespeare. It marks a【C10】_______development in the history of Shakespearian portraiture."
      The painting was displayed finally at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, Shakespeare’s birthday.
A) accepted
B) envy
C) excitement
D) hangs
E) ideal
F) inherited
G) initially
H) major
I) obtained
J) original
K) similarities
L) stands
M) time
N) ultimately
O) unsure [br] 【C8】

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答案 G

解析由空格后斯坦利·韦尔斯教授所说的“My first impression was skepticism”可以推断，韦尔斯教授一开始对这幅画持怀疑态度，所以应填入initially“起初”。

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