【推荐1】Let me tell you a secret. There are no wrong answers when you’re talking about art.

As an art historian, I am passionate about _________ my love of art to the wider public. Sometimes art can be difficult to understand. But there is no need to _________. At the heart of every engagement with an artwork is this: do you like it or not?

_________ a lot of our art galleries and museums are free in the UK, many people are _________ to visit for fear that they won’t understand the art on display. There's a (n) _________ that other visitors may be more knowledgeable and that they understand what the artworks mean. But this _________ isn’t true. Everyone is _________ in front of an artwork and there are no wrong answers.

When talking about the challenges of understanding art, I'm often _________ of the Andersen story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. When the Emperor parades (游行) before his _________ in his “new clothes”, everyone compliments (恭维) the beautiful new clothes— no one dares __________ they can’t see anything. It takes a young child to tell the truth. “Listen to the voice of __________,” shout the Emperor’s people.

__________, in front of an artwork, you should try to look at it innocently. Contemporary art can be particularly difficult to understand and __________ but enjoying an artwork is an instinct (直觉). Do you like it or not? Do you find it __________ or not? If you don’t like it, that’s OK! It doesn’t matter what other people say or think.

A very well-respected art historian called Ernst Gombrich believes that a viewer “completed” the artwork, and that part of an artwork's meaning came from the person __________ it.

If you are thinking deeply about an artwork, then you are the intended viewer and what you think matters. You are the only critic that is important.

【推荐3】Once upon a time, friendship was easy. I miss how spending time together used to be as simple as walking across the hall or picking up the ___ to say, “I’ve got wine, and I’m coming over.” I miss the way we could laugh and cry or talk about nothing for hours because we had ___ to go and nothing to do. And ___ we did, laughing, crying, or talking was much more important anyway.  

These days, friendship feels much ___. Instead of walking across the hall with a bowl of cookies, we need to ___ for hours or board a plane to get together. Family responsibilities and work obligations leave us with ___ minutes, and when we collapse(瘫倒) in bed at night, we can barely gather the ___ to wash off our make-up, ___ carry on a phone conversation. Days and weeks have gone by and we communicate only by ___ or Facebook updates, and by the time we do get together, there is so much to say that we aren’t even sure where to start.  

I want a handful of real, true, and ____ friendships—not flocks of fake friends and casual acquaintances(熟人). I want to know that we’ll be friends whether we ____ within 10 minutes’ walk or a thousand miles away from each other. I want to know that we’ll be friends whether it’s as simple as walking across the street or as ____ as planning a girls’ weekend together. I want friends who are there not just when it’s easy, but when it’s hard.  

True friendship isn’t about being ____; it’s about loyalty, trust and the ability to be who we are with each other. True friendship has no limitation of time, ____ or differences. True friends know us inside out. They know our ____, so they better understand our present situation and will continue to be part of our future.