Critical Reading>Sentence Completions

　　Choose the word or set of words that, wheninserted in the sentence, best fits the meaningof the sentence as a whole.

　　Since the two legislators had a long history of majordisagreements, the senator considered hiscolleague’s enthusiastic assurances that they would be in agreement on a forthcoming pieceof legislation -------.

　　(A) fatuous

　　(B) precious

　　(C) sagacious

　　(D) meritorious

　　(E) ignoble

　　答案：A

　　解析：

　　Choice (A) is correct. It makes sense that thesenator, in light of his and his colleague's sharedhistory of non-cooperation, would consider thecolleague's assurances "fatuous," or complacentlyfoolish.

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