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Writing & Language

After reading the passage, choose the answer to the question that most effectively improves the quality of writing in the passage or that makes the passage conform to the conventions of standard written English. Sometimes the question will include a "NO CHANGE" option. Choose that option if you think the best choice is to leave the relevant portion of the passage as it is.

Since its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, action painting has become closely associated with Jackson Pollock, the abstract expressionist painter who began experimenting with this technique after taking his canvas off the easel and laying it down on the floor. According to Pollock, maneuvering around the canvas on the floor allowed him to get lost in the painting. Photographer Hans Namuth, who once had the opportunity to observe Pollock's action painting, described it as dancing. He said Pollock gradually picked up speed as he circled the canvas, flinging black, white, and rust-colored paint off his brush until the canvas ________ covered, a tangle of splashes and splatters and drips.

(A) NO CHANGE
(B) has been
(C) will be
(D) was

答案和解析

答案：D

解析：

Choice D is the best answer because it appropriately uses the past tense verb "was" to continue the account of Namuth's observations. Other verbs in the sentence ("picked" and "circled") are also in the past tense.