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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