Birthdays often bring surprises. But this year’s surprise on the birthday of the great British playwright William Shakespeare is __
21__ one of the most surprising.
On April 22, one day before his 441
st birthday anniversary, experts __
22__ that one of the most recognizable __
23__ of William Shakespeare is a fake (赝品).
This __
24__ that we no longer have a good __
25__ of what Shakespeare looked like. “It’s very possible that many pictures of Shakespeare are unreliable because many of them are __
26__ of this one,” said an expert from Britain’s National Portrait Gallery.
The
_27_ comes after four months of testing. Experts from the gallery say the image — commonly known as the “Flower portrait” — was actually __
28__ in the 1800s, two centuries __
29_ Shakespeare’s death.
The art experts who work at the gallery say they used modern chemistry technology to __
30__ the paint on the picture. These checks found traces (痕迹) of paint deep in the picture __
31__ about 1814.
Shakespeare __
32__ in 1616, and the date that appears on the portrait is 1609.
“We now think the portrait dates back to around 1818 to 1840. This was __
33__ there was a new interest in Shakespeare’s__
34__ ,” Tanya Cooper, the gallery’s 16
th century curator (馆长) said.
The __
35__ picture has often been used as a cover for __
36__ of his plays. It is called the “Flower portrait” because one of its __
37__, Desmond Flower, gave it to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
“There have always been __
38__ about the authenticity (真实性) of the painting,” said David Howells, curator for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
“Now we know the truth, we can put the image in its proper place in the history of Shakespearean portraiture (画像技法),” he said.
Two other images of Shakespeare are also being studied as part of the investigation and the results will __
39__later in May. But for now what Shakespeare really looked like will remain a __
40__.
| 小题1: | | A．surely | B．never | C．hardly | D．only |
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| 小题2: | | A．wondered | B．doubted | C．found | D．considered |
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| 小题3: | | A．plays | B．masterpieces | C．portraits | D．photos |
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| 小题4: | | A．recommends | B．advises | C．decides | D．means |
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| 小题5: | | A．news | B．idea | C．design | D．expression |
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| 小题6: | | A．bargains | B．productions | C．copies | D．prints |
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| 小题7: | | A．justice | B．discovery | C．invention | D．deed |
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| 小题8: | | A．cloned | B．developed | C．painted | D．copied |
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| 小题9: | | A．after | B．before | C．since | D．until |
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| 小题10: | | A．try | B．remove | C．wash | D．check |
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| 小题11: | | A．looking back | B．dating from | C．getting along | D．starting with |
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| 小题12: | | A．died | B．was born | C．succeeded | D．was buried |
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| 小题14: | | A．stories | B．pictures | C．plays | D．photos |
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| 小题15: | | A．real | B．original | C．valuable | D．fake |
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| 小题16: | | A．requirements | B．collections | C．consequences | D．playwrights |
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| 小题17: | | A．owners | B．painters | C．writers | D．readers |
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| 小题18: | | A．causes | B．problems | C．questions | D．orders |
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| 小题19: | | A．go about | B．come out | C．turn up | D．break out |
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| 小题20: | | A．surprise | B．problem | C．secret | D．mystery |
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