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A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than that is possible to learn in general history class

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问题     A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than that is possible to learn in general history classes. Most (1)_____ history courses concentrate on politics, economics, and war. (2)_____, art history (3)_____ on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also religious (4)_____, emotions, and psychology. (5)_____, information about the daily activities of our own can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the (6)_____ qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than what can be found in most history books.
    In history books, objective information about the political life of a country is (7)_____; that is, facts about political are given, but (8)_____ are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is (9)_____: it reflects emotions and impressions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya severely criticized the Spanish government for its (10)_____ of power over people. Over a hundred years later, symbolic (11)_____ were used in Pablo Picasso’s Guemica to express the (12)_____ of War. (13)_____, on another continent, the powerful paintings of Diego Rivera depicted these Mexican artists’ concealed (14)_____ and sadness about social problems.
    In the same way, art can (15)_____ a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art was (16)_____ the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible. (17)_____ most people couldn’t read, they could still understand biblical stories in the pictures on church walls. (18)_____, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its (19)_____ of human and animal images. This reflects the Islamic belief that statues are (20)_____.

选项 A、guard
B、anger
C、content
D、assault.
答案B
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