After reading the passage below, fill in
the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the
blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given
word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
There
is a tendency to think of each of the arts as {#blank#}1{#/blank#} separate area of activity. Many
artists, however, would prove {#blank#}2{#/blank#} there has always been a warm
relationship between the a warm relationship areas of human activity. For
example, in the late nineteenth century the connections between music and
painting were especially close. Artists {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (invite) to design clothes and settings
for operas and ballets, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} sometimes it was the musicians who
were inspired by the work of contemporary painters. Of the musical compositions
as responses to the visual arts, perhaps the most famous is Mussorgsky's
Pictures at an Exhibition.
Mussorgsky composed the piece in 1874 after
the death, at the age of 39, of the artist Victor Hartman. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} their friendship had not been a
particularly long-lasting one, Mussorgsky was shocked by Hartmann's unexpected
death. The following year the critic, Vladimir Stasov, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} decided to told an exhibition of
Hartmann's work, suggested that Mussorgsky {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (try) to relieve his grief by writing
something in memory of Hartmann.
The
exhibition served as Mussorgsky's inspiration. The ten pieces that make up
Pictures at an Exhibition {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (intend) as symbols rather than
representation of the paintings in the exhibition. Between each is a promenade
(舞曲中 
行进), as the composer walks from one painting to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} The music is sometimes witty and playful, sometimes almost alarming and frightening. Thought a range of surprising contrasts, Mussorgsky manages {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (convey) the spirit of the artist and his work.
