首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
On Tuesday August 11th, 1911, a young artist, Louis Beraud, arrived at the Louvre in Paris to complete a painting of the Salon C
On Tuesday August 11th, 1911, a young artist, Louis Beraud, arrived at the Louvre in Paris to complete a painting of the Salon C
admin
2010-07-06
26
问题
On Tuesday August 11th, 1911, a young artist, Louis Beraud, arrived at the Louvre in Paris to complete a painting of the Salon Carre. This was the room where the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, was on display. To his surprise there was an empty space where the painting should have been. At 11 o’clock the museurn authorities realized that the painting had been stolen. The next day headlines all over the world announced the theft.
Actually the Leonardo had been gone for more than twenty-four hours before anyone noticed it was missing. The museum was always closed on Mondays for maintenance. Just before closing time on Sunday three men had entered the museum, where they had hidden themselves in a storeroom. The actual theft was quick and simple. Early the next morning Perrugia removed the painting from the wall while the others kept watch. Then they went out a hack exit.
Nothing was seen or heard of the painting for two years when Perrugia tried to sell it to a dealer for half a million lire. Perrugia was arrested on December 13th Perrugia claimed he had stolen it as an act of patriot-ism, because, he said, the painting had been looted from the Italian nation by Napoleon. Perrugia was imprisoned for 7 months. It seemed that the crime of the century had been solved.
But had it? Perrugia was keen to claim all responsibility for the theft, and it was twenty years before the whole story came out. In fact Perrugia bad been working for two master criminals, Valfierno and Chaudron, who went unpunished for their crime. They would offer to steal a famous painting from a gallery for a crooked dealer or an unscrupulous private collector. They would then make a copy of the picture and, with the help of bribed gallery attendants, tape the copy to the back of the original painting. The dealer would then be taken to the gallery and would be invited to make a secret mark on the back of the painting. Of course the dealer would actually be marking the copy. Valfierno would later produce forged newspaper cuttings announcing the theft of the original, and then produce the copy, complete with secret marking. If the dealer were to see the painting still in the gallery, he would be persuaded that it was a copy, and that he possessed the genuine one.
Chaudron then painted not one, but six copies of the Mona Lisa, using 400-year-old wood panels from antique Italian furniture The forgeries were carefully aged, so that the varnish was cracked and dirty. Valfierno commissioned Perrugia to steal the original, and told him to hide it until Valfierno contacted him Perrugia waited in vain in a tiny room in Paris with the painting, but heard nothing from his partners in crime. They had gone to New York, where the six copies were already in store. They had sent them there before the original was stolen. At that time it was quite common for artists to copy old masters, which would be sold quite honestly as imitations, so there had been no problems with US Customs. Valfierno went on to sell all six copies for $ 300 000 each. Valfierno told the story to a journalist in 1914, on condition that it would not be published until his death.
Does the story end there? Collectors have claimed that Perrugia returned a copy. It is also possible that Leonardo may have painted several versions of the Mona Lisa, or they might be copies made by Leonardo’s pupils. There has been a lot of controversy and argument about the 450-year-old painting, but after all, maybe that’s what She’s smiling about.
The painting was probably stolen ______.
选项
A、on the morning of August 11th, 1911
B、on the afternoon of August 11th, 1911
C、on August 10th,1911
D、on August 9th, 1911
答案
C
解析
分析推理题。文章第二段第一句指出,发现失窃后,实际上《蒙娜丽莎》已经丢失超过24小时了,然后描述了博物馆的开门时间和窃贼作案的过程。窃贼们周日进入博物馆里,再在第二天早上即周一盗走了画。文章第一句说明周二是1911年8月11日,因此盗走画的时间就是8月10日,选C 。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/aGDd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Wherewastheletterprobablyplacedmanyyearsago?
ThoughPaulisdisabled,hemanagedtomovearoundinthehouse.
RecentsurveysshowthatJapaneseyouthhavebecomea"MeGeneration"thatrejectstraditionalvalues."Around1980manyJap
Periodicallyinhistory,therecomeperiodsofgreattransitioninwhichworkchangesitsmeaning.Therewasatime,perhaps10,
A=BOOKREVIEW1B=BOOKREVIEW2C=BOOKREVIEW3D=BOOKREVIEW4Whichbookreview(s)contain(s)thefollowinginformation?
Howcanforeign-traineddoctorsgetapprovedfromtheEducationalCommissiontocompletearesidencyintheUS?
Emmagrewupinafamilywithasailingtradition.HersuccessfulcompletionoftheAroundAloneraceencouragedEmmatodoaf
Emmagrewupinafamilywithasailingtradition.TheworstthingthathappenedtoEmmaduringtheAroundAloneracewasthat
Morethan30,000driversandpassengerswhositinthefrontofthevehiclesarekilledorseriouslyinjuredeachyear.Atasp
Thepassengerswillhavea15-minute______stopatBloomington.
随机试题
属于活疫苗的是
药师赵某在药店工作,一日,患者小李由于发烧进店购买某类处方药以快速缓解病情,已知该药有一定的胃肠道刺激性,店内销售的有两种口服剂型:溶液剂和胶囊剂。根据上述案例,回答下列问题:请分别阐述两种剂型口服后的吸收过程,并分析说明选用哪一种剂型效果更好。
题13~17:有一等边三桩承台基础,采用沉管灌注桩,桩径为426mm,有效桩长为24m。有关地基各土层分布情况、桩端端阻力特征值qpa、桩侧阻力特征值qsia及桩的布置、承台尺寸等如图5-22a、b所示。已知c2=939mm,a12=467mm
关于履约保函标准格式的表述中,不正确的是()。
某工业项目建设单位通过招标与施工单位签订了施工合同,主要内容包括设备基础、设备钢架(多层)、工艺设备、工业管道和电气仪表安装等。工程开工前,施工单位按合同约定向建设单位提交了施工进度计划,如图2H320060一1所示。上述施工进度计划中
股票基金持股集中度是指()。
若利率变动对存款人或借款人有利,存款人就可能重新安排存款,借款人可能选择重新安排贷款,从而对银行()。
某公司新招聘了一名财务主管,他是业界资深人士。当他接手公司财务工作后,发现本部门一名出纳的工作表现与其以往的绩效记录相差很远。他接手以前,这名员工的绩效考评记录均是优秀,但自他来后,发现这名员工在工作中总是出错,而且还经常违反公司的规章制度,财务主管百思不
在生活中出现摩擦、不快和委屈是常有的事,我们不能以针尖对麦芒,因为怨恨就像是一只气球,越吹越大,最后膨胀到无法控制的地步。要消除怨恨,我们应该不念旧恶,不计新怨,___________。填人画横线部分最恰当的一项是()。
必须与其他查询相结合使用的查询是()。
最新回复
(
0
)