单选题
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
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Expressionism is one of the main
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of art in the late 19th and the 20th centuries. Its
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subjective, personal self-expression is typical
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a wide range of modern artists and art movements. More
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, Expressionism as a
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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
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of the War period.
The roots of the German Expressionist school
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the works of Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor, each of
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in the period 1885-1900
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a highly personal painting style. These artists used the expressive possibilities of color and line to
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dramatic and emotion themes, to convey the qualities of fear, horror, etc. They broke
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from the literal representation of nature in order to express more subjective outlooks or
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of mind. The
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of Expressionism was brought about by the vagueness of its longing
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a better world, by its use of highly poetic language, and
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the intensely personal and
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nature of its mode of presentation. The partial re-establishment of stability in Germany after 1924 and the growth of more
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political styles of social realism
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the movement"s decline in the late 1920s. Expressionism was
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killed by the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] In a broad sense为固定搭配，表示“从广义来说”，此处broader为比较级，表示下一句相比上文是从更广泛意义上而言的，故选C。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 由第二段the German Expressionist school可以看出表现主义已经成为一种流派，故空格处应填入表示“潮流”的词，表示“艺术潮流”宜用currents。tendency和inclination一般都是强调“个人行为的趋向”，用于此不妥；discipline“学科”。
【答案解析】[解析] 下文提到in order to express more subjective outlooks(为了传达更为主观的个人看法)，故推断，“对自然的平实描述”这种方法会被抛弃，broke away from“打破(陈规)”符合语境。break off from强调“成除”，不如D项佳。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 此处“______ of mind”和“subjective outlooks(主观的个人看法)”通过or连接，表明两者意思很接近，states of mind意为“心境”跟subjective outlooks语义接近，故选C。