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第 1 题
It was a tulip of extraordinary beauty, its midnight-blue petals topped by a band of pure white and accented with crimson flares. To denizens of 17th century Holland, little was as desirable.
A particularly beautiful tulip had ______ petals decorated with white and crimson features.
第 2 题
Long before the first tulip bloomed in Europe-in Bavaria, it turns out, in 1559-the flower had enchanted the Persians and bewitched the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. It was in Holland, however, that the passion for tulips found its most fertile ground.
Before reaching Europe, tulips had captivated the ______ and Ottoman rulers.
第 3 题
The tulip was a conspirator in the supply squeeze: It takes seven years to grow one from seed. And while bulbs can produce two or three clones, or “offsets,” annually, the mother bulb only lasts a few years.
Though tulip bulbs generate several yearly clones called offsets, the ______ bulb has a short lifespan.
第 4 题
It began in Haarlem, at a routine bulb auction when, for the first time, the greater fool refused to show up and pay. Within days, the panic had spread across the country. Despite the efforts of traders to prop up demand, the market for tulips evaporated.
The tulip market crash started in the city of ______.
第 5 题
The zenith came early that winter, at an auction to benefit seven orphans whose only asset was 70 fine tulips left by their father. One, a rare Violetten Admirael van Enkhuizen bulb that was about to split in two, sold for 5,200 guilders, the all-time record.
The all-time record price for a tulip bulb was set at an auction for ______.
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