Answer of Section 4, Question 5

For years the prime minister was made to sound articulate and convincing through the efforts of his talented speech writers. Yet there was a downside to the speech writers' (i)______: as the prime minister's government began to (ii)______, his rhetorical (iii)______ stood in stark contrast to his political inadequacies.

Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
(A) considerable achievement (D) diversify (G) infelicities
(B) vague indifference (E) unravel (H) candor
(C) steady improvement (F) thrive (I) eloquence

官方解說:

The first sentence tells us that the prime minister's speech writers were able to make the prime minister "sound articulate and convincing." This represents "considerable achievement" (not "vague indifference" or "steady improvement") on the part of the speech writers. So "considerable achievement" is the correct answer for Blank (i).

In the second sentence, the material after the colon must explain or spell out the "downside" mentioned. For Blank (ii), the correct answer is "unravel" since, among the answer choices, this makes the most sense in the context, given the reference to the prime minister’s "political inadequacies" at the end of the sentence.

For Blank (iii), "eloquence" is the correct answer since we know that the prime minister was made to sound articulate and convincing. Moreover, the "stark contrast" between the prime minister's rhetorical eloquence and his political inadequacies would certainly be a downside to the speech writers making him sound articulate and convincing.

Thus the correct answer is considerable achievement, unravel, and eloquence.

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