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重庆合川市2017高考英语语法填空、文章阅读类训练（4）及答案 语法填空 仔细阅读下面短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照语境以及括号里所给的词完成短文。答案填写在答题卡标号为1—25的对应位置。 Until about 150 years ago, the most important, expensive and renowned kind of painting was large-scale pictures that told a story, regarded as the (hard) challenge for an artist. 【小题2】 (choose) suitable subjects, artists had to be well-read. Then they had to know 【小题3】 stories could be told without words, using only gestures and expressions. To create lifelike scenes, they had to understand perspective, lighting and anatomy. So history painting needed a lot of thought and 【小题4】 . (imagine). Large-scale pictures used to be reserved for grand religious or patriotic subjects, but that changed in the 19th century, as artists began creating history paintings based 【小题5】 contemporary news stories. One of the first of these was The Raft of the Medusa, inspired by the wreck of 【小题6】 French ship in 1816, which showed how art could have a powerful political impact. It presents a scene 【小题7】 the survivors of the wreck on a raft littered with bodies try to signal to a distant ship. When they | 
