【单选题】

On the anniversary of the artist’s birth, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers was (21) for just under ￡ 25 million at the fine art auctioneers(拍卖),Christie’s, in London. The (22) was triple the previous record of ￡ 8 million paid in 1985 for Mantegna’sAdoration of the Magi.At least ten bidders (23) for the painting, half (24) telephone, anonymously battling it out in leaps of ￡ 500,000. Van Gogh wrote in a letter of 1889 that one of these Scots orAmericans (25) to pay 500 francs--about ￡ 25 at that time-- for (26) a painting.

Christie’s chairman (27) reporters after the sale, "it’s a rare picture."A、spokesman for the firm added, "It’s fantastiC、" Not (28) who was at the auction agreeD、One commented, "More money (29) sense."
Many people do (30) uneasy that a picture could be auctioned for such an unbelievable sum. They find distasteful the contrast (31) this sort of money and the impoverished life of the painter (32) Van Gogh, once a lay preacher among the miners ofBelgium, was more (33) in producing work that dignified labor than he was in selling for a profit.Depressive, poor, unrecognized and (34) suicidal, he remains a romantic figure in the public (35) .
A．to
B．than
C．better
D．over