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填空练习3：双空双选1. Fentons motives were clearly (i)_ , yet Fenton tried, in the most ingratiating way, to (ii)_ his innocence.2. In claiming that there are overarching commonalities among every culture, Jungenfreud perhaps (i)_ his case: while there are most likely universal belief systems and recurrent myths spanning both time and civilizations, depending on the level of (ii)_ of a scholars criteria, surely not all societies display the exact same characteristics-it is one thing to say that every people has an elaborate view of the afterlife (as Jungenfreud does); it is another to show uncanny parallels between the particulars of this afterlife (as Jungenfreud fails to do).3. For someone so unjustifiably (i)_ ?success, the recently installed CEO perhaps surprised very few when his series of impractical business solutions did not ?(ii)_ the floundering firm.4. What is the greatest novel of all-time? Many top-100 lists have been proffered, purporting to resolve this very issue. Yet the (i)_ those compiling these rankings suggests that any definitive list is not (ii)_.5. Mulcahy, in averring that most literary criticism has become so filled with abstruse jargon as to be practically indecipherable to anyone save its practitioners, is himself (i)_: his main point will be discernible only to the very community he seeks to (ii)_.6. Whereas the incumbents opponents feverishly worked around the clock, digging up seemingly irrelevant information only to contort a(n) (i)_ incident so that it appeared unequivocally damning, the incumbent himself resorted to no such (ii)_ and preferred instead to calumniate his opponents during highly publicized debates.subtle promotion7. Giacomos concerti, much like the composer himself, were a (i)_ affair. Fits of passion would, without warning, give way to sudden idylls, as though the composer had been trying to (ii)_ his inner conflicts. Only in his later works, which are far more abstract, does he eschew trying to capture his inner states.8. For an obscure poet to have penned such a refined, poignant sonnet is not at all (i)_. The sonnet, after all, has been a favored form for hundreds of years amongst the amateur and lionized alike. I would be (ii)_, on the other hand, had not one, out of the sheer number produced during this time, surpassed Shakespeare on a bad day.9. For all his (i)_, Honore de Balzac?betrayed?a remarkable (ii)_ to the plight of 19th century women, populating his novels with characters sympathetic to womens rights.10. Claires moods shifted drastically and unexpectedly one moment she was (i)_, chatting lively, the next she was (ii)_, looking forlornly out of the window.11. To critics the authors latest work was (i)_ ; with so few people purchasing the book, this reception proved to be (ii)_.12. There is a rising consensus amongst immunologists that the observed rise in allergies in the general population can be attributed to (i)_ exposure to everyday germs. Known as the hygiene hypothesis, this counterintuitive idea could have far reaching implicationsfor one, we may now have to be more (ii)_ those paternal prescriptions to scrub our childrens hands at every opportunity.13. The theoretical physicist, despite his mathematical training, oftentimes must deal with questions that fall under the realm of the philosophical. Nonetheless, he will often marshal formulae when they serve to _ a theory, notwithstanding the fact that many such theories are not _ empirical analysis, as those theories deal with questions whose answers may ultimately be unknowable.14. That traditional forms of mediadespite considerable variance in the quality of writingtend to report on a range of issues (i) _ by the demands of the readership should (ii) _ those who believe that the demise of each media outlet signals a lamentable reduction in the scope of news reported.15. A new school of thought has it that innate talent can be conveniently _ a series of readily _ factors Mozarts genius then is no divine blessing of the type conferred on a select few, but is simply the result of a patriarchal father who stressed, above else, thousands upon thousands of hours of grueling practice.16. However much the economist trumpeted his _, his accurate prediction of a major downturn was not as _ as he led the public to believe; for years he had been prophesying fiscal doom.17. Vermeer is able to imbue his paintings with a saintliness verging on the _, a quality that is in sharp juxtaposition to the _ of his subjects: a milkmaid preparing breakfast, a servant tidying up a messy kitchen.18. (i)_ in the 1990s, Swing music has since (ii)_ in popular venues, returning to its former state of middling popul