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2015考研英语阅读卡塔尔的艺术女王

　　The emir s blueprint, Qatar National Vision 2030, is leading to new schools and universities, as well as a post-production centre toservice the international film industry, and even a paperless hospital. New museums toshowcase Qatar s collections of Islamic art, modernist Arab painting, photography, armourand natural history are all part of the plan.

　　而在他们酋长的蓝图卡塔尔展望2030里，包括建设新的中小学及高校，还有服务于国际电影工业的后期制作中心，甚至是无纸办公医院。建造新的博物馆去展示卡塔尔在伊斯兰艺术，现代阿拉伯绘画，摄影，古代盔甲以及博物学方面的收藏，也同样是这个计划的一部分。

　　At the same time Sheikh Saud s older brother, Sheikh Hassan, was buying 20th-centuryArabic painting. Many of the artists were trained in Europe and the 6,000-piece collection atMathaf, a modern-art museum in Education City, has a derivative feel. For a fledglingnation the paintings are important as an historical record.

　　与此同时，Sheikh Saud的大哥Sheikh Hassan，正在收购20世纪的阿拉伯绘画作品。由于它们的作者都是在欧洲训练出身，所以在Mathaf。对于一个新兴国家来说这些绘画作品就同历史记载一般重要。

　　Now the call to culture has fallen to a new generation. Sheikha Mayassa was a tomboyish,competitive child, the result, she says, of having two older brothers. Encouraged by hermother, a middle-class Qatari educated in a mixed school in Cairo , she learned French, English and her native Arabic, and went on to studypolitical science and literature at Duke University in North Carolina.