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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．
Painting，the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment，has been continuously practiced by humans for some 20．000 years．__31___other activities that may have been ritualistic in origin but have come to be designated as artistic such as music or dance，painting was one of the earliest ways in which man ___32__ to express his own personality and his __33___ understanding of an existence beyond the material world．__34___ music and dance，however，examples of early forms of painting have __35___ to the present day．The modem eye can derive aesthetic as well as antiquarian satisfaction __36___ the 15，000-year-old cave murals of Lascaux--some examples __37___ to the considerable powers of draftsmanship of these early mists．And painting， like other arts，exhibits universal qualities that make it ___38__ for viewers of all nations and civilizations to understand and appreciate．
The major __39___ examples of early painting anywhere in the world are found in Western Europe and Russia．But some 5,000 years a90，the areas in which important paintings were executed _40____ to the eastern Mediterranean Sea and neighboring regions．__41___ ，Western shared a European cultural tradition--the Middle East and Mediterranean Basin and，later，the countries of the New World．
Western painting is __42___ distinguished by its concentration on the representation of the human __43___，whether in the heroic context of antiquity or the religious context of the early Christian and medieval world．The Renaissance __44___ this tradition through a __45___ examination of the natural world and all investigation of balance，harmony，and perspective in the visible world，linking painting __46___ the developing sciences of anatomy and optics．The first real __47___ from figurative painting came with the growth of landscape painting in the 17th and l8th centuries．The landscape and figurative traditions developed together in the 19th century in an atmosphere that was increasingly concerned with “painterly” qualities of the __48___ 0f light and color and the expressive qualities of paint handling．In the 20th century these interests __49___to the development of a third major tradition in Western paintin9，abstract painting，which sought to __50___ and express the true nature of paint and painting through action and form．
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