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.  
【C8】
选项 A、extinct
B、extent
C、extant
D、exterior
答案C
解析 此题考查时的四个选项的意思。extant 形容词，现存的、未被毁灭的；extinct 动词，绝迹；extent 名词，范围、长度；exterior 形容词，外在的。
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