Question

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  小题1: (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    小题8: ( rescue ), they told how they had been abandoned by their captain, while he sailed to safety in a lifeboat. Starving, they had to eat each other to survive—though this picture makes   小题9:   look heroic rather than violent. The picture caused a huge outcry. Some people thought the artist meant to criticize the French king,   小题10:  had been involved in appointing the ship's captain.

Answer 1

小题1:hardest
小题2:To choose 
小题3:how
小题4:imagination
小题5:on
小题6:a
小题7:where 
小题8:were rescued 
小题9:them
小题10:who

试题分析：直到150年前，世界上最重要的、最昂贵的绘画是用来讲述宗教故事的大幅作品，这对于画家来说是个巨大的挑战。为了选材作为绘画内容，他们必须要博学、还要知道如何用绘画来表述故事。但是到了19世纪，这种情况被改变了，画家们开始用现代的故事来作为绘画内容。
小题1:考查形容词。根据下文对这幅绘画的讲述可知这幅作品的取材、创作都是非常耗费精力的，再根据前面的定冠词the可以判断此处用形容词最高级，答案填hardest。
小题2:考查非谓语动词。根据下文内容可知画家们必须要博学多才，还得了解如何不用文字来讲述这个故事，再通过To create lifelike scenes, they had to understand…..可以判断此处是强调目的，应该用不定式，填To choose。意思是：为了选择合适的主题……。
小题3:考查连接词。由结构可知此处是宾语从句，从句中是“主谓宾”结构，缺少状语，再根据从句的内容stories could be told without words, using only gestures and expressions.可以判断此处强调方式，指如何去做到这一点，答填how。
小题4:考查名词。and连接并列成分，根据所给提示单词以及空前a lot of thought and….可以判断此处填名词imagination
小题5:固定搭配：be based on“以……为根据”，答案填on。
小题6:考查冠词。ship是可数名词，单数可数名词前需有限定词，根据语境可知此处指“一艘法国船”，是泛指概念，答案填a。
小题7:考查定语从句。分析结构可知名词后面the survivors of the wreck on a raft littered with bodies try to signal to a distant ship.是定语从句，从句缺少状语，而先行词scene是抽象名词，表地点，故答案填where。
小题8:考查动词。根据句意可知状语从句的主语they和rescue是被动关系，再根据主句时态判断此处用一般过去时的被动形式，答案填were rescued。
小题9:考查代词。根据上文内容可知此处指代the survivors of the wreck on a raft，做make的宾语，用宾格形式。短语：make sb do sth，答案填them。
小题10:考查定语从句。从结构可知此处是非限制性定语从句，从句缺少主语，而先行词是the French king ，所以填who。