Answer of Section 1, Question 2
The activists' prodigious activity on behalf of both woman suffrage and the temperance movement in the late nineteenth century belies the assertion that the two movements were ______.
| Blank |
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| (A) influential |
| (B) controversial |
| (C) inimical |
| (D) elitist |
| (E) transitory |
官方解說：
The sentence concerns certain activists who were involved with the woman suffrage movement and the temperance movement, and makes an assertion about the implications of those activists being involved in both movements simultaneously. What assertion would be "belied" (contradicted) by this simultaneous involvement? The only logical answer choice is "inimical": this simultaneous involvement shows that the movements were not at odds with one another.
Thus the correct answer is inimical.
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