For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a (i) one. Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that no longer warrants the trite tag “cutting-edge.” Once the proverbial envelope is pushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head – or furrows the collective brow – thinking that this time the “artists” have (ii). That very same admixture of contempt and confusion, however, was not unknown in Michelangelo’s day only what was considered blasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered (iii).

Blank (i)

perennial

contemporary

controversial

Blank (ii)

served their purpose

gone too far

failed to provoke

Blank (iii)

hackneyed

reverent

tame

我的答案： 无