|Question 18Verbal

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Lily Everett and Mary Foote were among the 300 artists who exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show, a groundbreaking New York City art exhibition that introduced modernism to American audiences. Marcel Duchamp’s abstract cubist aesthetic received the most skepticism from critics, as ______ represented a radical departure from the more realistic painting style that was popular at the time.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
these
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it
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we
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they
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