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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习： 英国平价艺术品市场受欢迎 GRE考试模拟：GRE阅读练习： 英国平价艺术品市场受欢迎 GRE考试精品课程训练  The rapid growth of art fairs is changing the way galleries operate  艺术品集会的快速发展正在改变画廊的运转方式  SHORTLY after The Economist went to press, about 25,000 people were expected to turn up at the London Art Fair. Your correspondent visited just before, as 128 white booths were being filled with modern paintings and sculptures. Dealers clutched mobile phones to their ears or gathered in small groups. They seemed nervous—as well they might be. “I can earn a years living in one fair,” said one harried dealer while stringing up a set of lights.  就在本期《经济学人》付印后不久，预计有两万五千人次参加伦敦艺术博览会。笔者之前参观过这个艺术博览会，现代画和现代风格的雕塑填满了128个白色展览位。商人们紧紧把手机贴在耳朵旁，或者三五成群。他们看上去神情紧张—也许事实也如此。一位忙碌的经销商一边忙着吊起组灯，一边说“一次博览会能让我挣足一年的生计”。  Before 1999 London had just one regular contemporary art fair, remembers Will Ramsay, boss of the expanding Affordable Art Fair. This year around 20 will be held in Britain, mostly in the capital. Roughly 90 will take place worldwide. The success of larger events such as Frieze, which started in London, has stimulated the growth of smaller fairs specializing in craft work, ceramics and other things. Art14, which started last year, specializes in less well-known international galleries, showing art from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Korea and Hong Kong.  逐步壮大的平价艺术品展览会老板拉姆齐，犹记得1999年之前，伦敦只有一个定期开展的当代艺术博览会。今年，英国将开展20余场，大都聚集在首都伦敦。粗略估计，全世界范围内会开展约90个艺术博览会。一些大型博览会，如开办于伦敦的斐列兹博览会刺激了小型专业于艺术品、陶艺品之类博览会的成长。去年开办的Art14博览会专注于一些不知名的画廊，专门展出一些来自黑非洲、韩国以及香港的艺术品。  One explanation for the boom is the overall growth of the modern-art market. Four-fifths of all art sold at auction worldwide last year was from the 20th or 21st century, according to Artprice, a database. In November an auction in New York of modern and contemporary art made $691m (￡422m), easily breaking the previous record. As older art becomes harder to buy—much of it is locked up in museums—demand for