A famous painting of Marilyn Monroe created by American artist Andy Warhol was sold for $195 million on Monday. That is     1     most ever paid in a public sale for a work by an American. Warhol painted Shot Sage Blue Marilyn in 1964. The     2    (color) image shows Monroe with yellow hair, blue eye shadow and bright red lips, with a rich blue background.

The sale took place at Christie’s auction (拍卖) house in New York. Many     3    (representative) from Christie’s said the painting became the costliest work of art ever     4    (sell) from the 20th century. Warhol’s painting passed the earlier record holder, Jean Michel Basquiat. His 1982 painting Untitled of a skull-like face was sold for a record $ 110.5 million in 2017 at Sotheby’s in New York. Warhol created     5    (much) than one image of Monroe. The Shot Sage Blue Marilyn painting has been shown     6     museums around the world. Christie’s said an unnamed buyer made the purchase on Monday night.

When the auction     7    (announce) earlier this year, Christie’s estimated it could go for as much as $ 200 million. “It’s an     8    (amaze) price,” said Alex Rotter, chairman of Christie’s 20th and 21st century art department. “Let it sink in. It’s quite something.”

The earnings of the sale will go to the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation Zurich,     9     puts the painting up for auction. The foundation aims     10    (help) children with health care and educational programs.

10 . Top Four Online English Shopping Websites From China

Today online shopping is growing rapidly worldwide. An increasing number of individual consumers and companies prefer to buy from China to enjoy benefits of low prices, broad categories and fast delivery offered by Chinese online stores. Here are top four China online shopping websites:

Made-in-China. com

Founded in 1996, Made-in-China.com is a leading B2B electronic business portal based in China. The site offers the most complete and latest information on Chinese products and suppliers. Just like its slogan sys, “Connecting Buyers with China Suppliers” Made-in-China. com does a good job of linking two sides. It is one of the biggest and best China online market.

LightInTheBox. com

LightInTheBox.com provides cheap and reliable items to both individual and company consumers. They sell a total of more than 60,000 kinds of commodities covering 14 categories of products including clothing, electronics, toys, jewelry, household and sporting items. LightInTheBox already has hundreds of millions of registered users from all over the world and delivers products to consumers in over 200 countries.

DHgate. com

DHgate.com, based in Beijing, is one of China’s oldest and biggest B2B online market-places for items produced in China. It is like the popular site Alibaba. com. The platform mainly connects small and medium suppliers with buyers overseas, selling wholesale to retailers around the world.

Banggood. com

Banggood.com was established in 2004, specializing in foreign trade e commerce for almost everything you need. Based in Guangzhou, Banggood is one of the best China online stores which is dedicated to offering low prices, high quality items to international customers. Banggood.com is famous for its faster delivery service, and it makes sure all items go through quality testing before being shipped.