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Part B.Last month, a small white ceramic bowl carved with a pattern of lotusblossoms sold for more than 2.2 million dollars at an auction in New York.That price was more than 700,000 times 46 the sellers had paid for it.The consignors bought the bowl for a few dollars at a yard sale in 2007.It was displayed in their home until they 47 Asian art experts anddiscovered that it was a thousand- year-old artifact from the Northern Songdynasty in China. If it’s curious that this bowl escaped notice for so long, it’san equal 48 that it came to light. Nothing signaled its age or rarity tothe untutored eye.49 so vital an article was overlooked led Ms. Wiggers, director andchief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, toorganize an exhibition devoted to it. She posits the bowl has been overlookedpartly because it’s an accessory. “When I talk to people about the bowl, it isalways about something else,” Ms. Wiggers said. “It’s a metaphoricalconversation about ritual, like in the tea ceremony, or about the fabricationprocess. It’s very hard to just talk about the bowl itself. We talk around thebowl.”50 , it’s the bowl’s lack of presence that makes it such an excellentmetaphor and accounts for the many memorable references to it in literature.
46.
(A)that
(B) when
(C) what
(D) which

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答案：A
難度：適中0.5625
統計：A(9),B(3),C(0),D(2),E(0)

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