2. 外语
  3. Painting has been continuously practiced by humans for some 20,000 years. Together with other activities 【C1】______ ritualistic

Painting has been continuously practiced by humans for some 20,000 years. Together with other activities 【C1】______ ritualistic

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问题      Painting has been continuously practiced by humans for some 20,000 years. Together with other activities 【C1】______ ritualistic in origin but have come to be designated as artistic (such as music or dance), painting was one of the earliest ways in which man 【C2】______ to express his own personality and his 【C3】______ understanding of an existence. 【C4】______ music and dance, however, examples of early forms of painting have survived to the present day. The modern eye can derive aesthetic as well as antiquarian satisfaction 【C5】______ the 15,000-year-old cave murals of Lascaux--some  examples 【C6】______ to the considerable powers of draftsmanship of these early artists. And painting, like other arts, exhibits universal qualities that 【C7】______ for viewers of all nations and civilizations. The major 【C8】______  examples of early painting anywhere are found in Western Europe. But long ago, the areas in which important paintings were executed 【C9】______ to the eastern Mediterranean
Sea and neighboring regions. 【C10】______ , Western shared a European cultural tradition.
     Western painting is generally distinguished by its concentration 【C11】______ the representation of the human 【C12】______ , whether in the context of antiquity or the religious  context of the early Christian. The Renaissance 【C13】______ this tradition through a 【C14】______ examination of the natural world and an investigation of balance in the visible world, linking painting 【C15】______ the developing sciences of anatomy. The First real 【C16】______ from figurative painting came with the growth of landscape painting. The landscape and figurative traditions developed together in an atmosphere that was increasingly 【C17】______ "painterly" qualities  of the 【C18】______ of light and color. In the 20th century these Interests 【C19】______ to the development of a third major tradition in Western painting, abstract painting, which sought to 【C20】______ and express the true nature of paint and painting through action and form.  
【C6】
选项 A、ratify
B、testify
C、certify
D、gratify
答案B
解析 该题也是词汇题。testify to 意思为证明、作证，是固定搭配，例如：testify to his honesty 为他的诚实作证；ratify 为及物动词，意思为批准，如：ratify the treaty 批准条约；certify 及物动词，担保、保证，certify the check 保证兑现；gratify 及物动词，满足，gratify my curiosity 满足我的好奇心。
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