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Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Since the two legislators had a long history of major disagreements, the senator considered his colleague’s enthusiastic assurances that they would be in agreement on a forthcoming piece of legislation -------.

(A) fatuous
(B) precious
(C) sagacious
(D) meritorious
(E) ignoble

答案和解析

答案：A

解析：

Choice (A) is correct. It makes sense that the senator, in light of his and his colleague's shared history of non-cooperation, would consider the colleague's assurances "fatuous," or complacently foolish.