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[单项选择]A quarter century ago, the sensation of the season was the children’s book Masquerade, by British artist Kit Williams. This story of a hare’s quest to deliver a message between moon and sun incorporated dazzlingly archetypal illustrations and bits of many myths collapsed into the inscriptions framing the fifteen pictures.
Masquerade became a media event because it presented in code the location of a golden hare sculpture Williams had buried. Once revealed, the code was disappointingly simple: "To solve the hidden riddle you must use your eyes," the book’s opening words, meant that eyes in the paintings pointed to words in the margins. The dazzling imagery was only filler, albeit hauntingly mysterious filler. Sensitive readers still felt that the visual mystery had to have meant more than this literal mapping.
An equally unanticipated publishing phenomenon, Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code, suggests that already existing buildings and works of art, some of them famous, are
A. Readers should try to follow the clue hidden in the book’s opening words.
B. Readers should use their eyes to find the hidden information.
C. Readers should focus on the words in the margins eyes in the paintings point to.
D. Readers should decode the visual mystery to find out the literal mapping.
[填空题]A. For the past quarter century, many individual investors followed a fairly simple investment strategy: set aside regular savings to invest, buy a diversified basket of holdings and ride out the occasional pullbacks by staying focused on very long-term returns. That conventional wisdom generally paid off. Now, with the stock market rallying after a crushing 40 percent decline last year, that strategy seems to be making a comeback. But there are very unconventional forces at work today that may derail that method.
B. After last year’s heart-stopping plunge, the stock market has gained about 25 percent since it bottomed in November. That stoked confidence among some investors and financial advisers that the worst may be over and investors who bailed out last year should now go bargain hunting. "Stocks are cheap right now. There’s a lot of cash on the sidelines, and earnings are washed out," said Rob Morgan, a market strategist for Clermont Wealth Strategies. "We’ve got ingredient