Expressionism is an artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions

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问题     Expressionism is an artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him. In a broader(1)_____ Expressionism is one of the main(2)_____ of art in the late 19th and the 20th centuries. Its(3)_____ subjective, personal self-expression is typical (4)_____ a wide range of modern artists and art movements. More(5)______, Expressionism as a (6)_____ style or movement refers to a number of German artists, as well as Austrian, French, and Russian ones, who became active in the years before World War I and remained so throughout(7)_____ of the War period.
    The roots of the German Expressionist school (8)_____ the works of Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor, each of(9)_____ in the period 1885-1900(10)_____ a highly personal painting style. These artists used the expressive possibilities of color and line to(11)_____ dramatic and emotion themes, to convey the qualities of fear, horror, etc. They broke(12)_____ from the literal representation of nature in order to express more subjective outlooks or(13)_____ of mind. The (14)_____ of Expressionism was brought about by the vagueness of its longing(15)_____ a better world, by its use of highly poetic language, and(16)_____ the intensely personal and(17)_____ nature of its mode of presentation. The partial re-establishment of stability in Germany after 1924 and the growth of more(18)_____ political styles of social realism(19)_____ the movement’s decline in the late 1920s. Expressionism was(20)_____ killed by the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933.
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选项 A、provoked
B、quickened
C、led to
D、slowed down

答案B

解析 空格位于“was brought about带来(衰落)”和“killed(消亡)”中间,因此推断这是发生在“表现主义衰落开始”和“表现主义完全消亡”的一个中间状态,即“加速衰落”,故选B。
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