Fill in the blanks in the text with the appropriate words from the list. Use the words in capitals to make longer words that fit the spaces in the text. (Tasks of this type always include at least one word with a prefix.) A POPULAR PAINTER The American painter George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925) was the only son of an elderly couple who 1) the Midwestern values of honest business practice and strict morality. From earliest 2) he seemed determined to become an artist. Before graduating from Ohio State University, and in the face of stiff parental 3) , he moved to New York to study art. There he was strongly influenced by 'The Eight', or American Ashcan School. For the 4) of his life, his work was characterised by realist subject matter, 5) approach to composition. He was also fascinated by the various systems of colour 6) that painters were using at the time, and studied them in detail. The truly 7) work that he produced in these early days 8) and contributed to much of his later painting. Despite his 9) with common, even low-life themes, he was elected an associate of the 10) National Academy at the exceptionally early age of 27. One of the reasons the Academy honoured Bellows, while 11) approval from many of the other members of 'The Eight', was the fact that there were 12) references to the old masters in Bellows' work. He was one of the few artists who 13) combined a modern verve and energy with an appreciation of artistic tradition, and his almost 14) appeal was therefore not surprising. EXAMPLE CHILD OPPOSE REMAIN LIE RELATE STAND SHADOW IDENTITY PRESTIGE HOLD MISTAKE INSTINCT UNIVERSE