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Historians already know that Winston Churchill often took high-risk gambles（赌博）in his political life . But that Churchill was a gambler in 41 aspects of his life has tended not to catch his biographers’ 42 .
Two new books attempt to fill this 43 .
The first is No More Champagne written by David Lough , a private-banker-turned-historian who looks at Churchill’s personal 44 during the ups and downs of his career . It is the first 45 to focus on this aspect of his life .
Mr. Lough has 46 through Churchill’s personal accounts and found that he was as much a 47 when it came to his money as he was when he was 48 at the Admiralty or in Downing Street .
49 Churchill was a descendant（后裔）of the Dukes of Marlborough , his 50 had “ very little money on either side ” – but that never 51 them living the 52 life . Indeed , between 1908 and 1914 the Churchill household spent an average of ￡1,160 on wine 53 each year--$145,000 in today’s money . It is no 54 that Churchill spent most of his life leaping from one cash flow crisis to another , being constantly behind his suppliers’ 55 .
Another new book , Winston Churchill Reporting , by Simon Read , an American journalist , looks at one of the 56 Churchill eventually paid some of them : 57 .
Mr. Read investigates how Churchill went from a young army officer to being Britain’s highest-earning war journalist by the age of 25 .
The Churchill name 58 helped open newspaper editors’ doors across London . But it was that the young 59 was willing to take risks on 60 across the world that marked out his columns from those of his contemporaries .
41. A. some | B. the other | C. the same | D. other |
42. A. breath | B. smile | C. attention | D. voice |
43. A. gap | B. hole | C. post | D. bill |
44. A. letters | B. beliefs | C. donations | D. finances |
45. A. biography | B. diary | C. song | D. poem |
46. A. travelled | B. searched | C. cut | D. got |
47. A. trouble-maker | B. passer-by | C. looker-on | D. risk-taker |
48. A. keeping secrets | B. making decisions | C. taking steps | D. giving lessons |
49. A. Since | B. When | C. Although | D. Until |
50. A. children | B. parents | C. wife | D. colleagues |
51. A. relieved | B. encouraged | C. stopped | D. banned |
52. A. low | B. miserable | C. high | D. new |
53. A. alone | B. joint | C. combined | D. separate |
54. A. use | B. doubt | C. need | D. wonder |
55. A. products | B. bills | C. price | D. service |
56. A. ways | B. friends | C. ideas | D. dreams |
57. A. reading | B. writing | C. fighting | D. risking |
58. A. hardly | B. involuntarily | C. illegally | D. certainly |
59. A. historian | B. banker | C. reporter | D. editor |
60. A. battlefields | B. farms | C. rivers | D. playgrounds |
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知识点：社会历史类
题型：完型填空
