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根据以下资料，回答题：Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks．
Mark the best choice for each blank on Answer Sheet Two．
Aesthetic thought of a distinctively modem bent emerged during the 18th century．The western philosophers and critics of this time __31__ much attention to such matters as natural beauty, the sublime, and representation-- a trend___32__the centralposition they had given to the philosophy-of nature．Since that time, however, the philosophy of art has become ever more__33__and has begun to __34__ the philosophy of nature．Various issues __35__ to the philosophy of art have had a __36__ impact on the orientation of 20th-century aesthetics．
__37__ among these are problems relating to the theory of art as form and __38__the ,distinction between representation and expression．Still another far-reaching question has to do with the __39__ of art．Two opposing theoretical positions have been __40__ on this issue: one holds that art and its appreciation are a means to some recognized moral good, __41__ the other maintains that art is intrinsically valuable and is an end in itself．
Underlying this whole issue is the concept of taste, one of the basic__42__of aesthetics．In recent years there has also been an increasing preoccupation with art as the prime object of __43__judgment．Corresponding to the trend in contemporary aesthetic thought, critics have followed __44__ of two approaches．In one, criticism is restricted to the analysis and interpretation of the work of art．__45__it is devoted to articulating the response to the aesthetic object and to __46__ a particular way of perceiving it．
Over the years, aesthetics has developed into a broad field of knowledge and inquiry．The concerns of contemporary aesthetics include such __47__ problems as the nature of style and its aesthetic significance; the relation of aesthetic judgment to culture; the__48__of a history of art; the__ 49__ of Freudian psychology and other forms of psychological study to criticism; and the place of aesthetic judgment in practical__50__in the conduct of everyday affairs．
请在第(31)处选择正确答案_______ A．distributed
B．devoted
C．attributed
D．absorbed
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