A.closeB.confirmedC.relieveD.unexpectedAB.symbolsAC.howeverAD.responsesBC.contrastsBD.ThoughCD.as

Question

  A. close           B. confirmed      C. relieve       D. unexpected

  AB. symbols       AC. however     AD. responses    BC. contrasts  

BD. Though       CD. as

  There is a tendency to think of each of the arts as a separate area of activity. Many artists __17__ would prove that there has always been a warm relationship between the various areas of human activity. For example in the late nineteenth century the connections between music and painting were particularly __18__. Artists were invited to design clothes and settings for operas and ballets but sometimes it was the musicians who were inspired by the work of painters. Of the musical compositions that were considered as __19__ to the visual arts perhaps the most famous is Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

  Mussorgsky composed the piece in 1874 after the death at the age of 39 of the artist Victor Hartmann. __20__ their friendship had not been a particularly long-lasting one Mussorgsky was shocked by Hartmann’s __21__ death. The following year the critic Vladimir Stasov who decided to hold an exhibition of Hartmann’s work suggested that Mussorgsky try to __22__ his grief by writing something in memory of Hartmann.

  The exhibition served as Mussorgsky’s inspiration( 刺激，灵感 ). The ten pieces that make up Pictures at an Exhibition are intended as __23___ rather than representations of the paintings in the exhibition. Between each is a promenade __24__ the composer walks from one painting to another. The music is sometimes witty and playful sometimes almost alarming and frightening. Through a range of surprising __25__ Mussorgsky manages to convey the spirit of the artist and his work.

Answer 1

AC 、 A 、 AD 、 BD 、 D 、 C 、 AB 、 CD 、 BC