请教一道填空题~来自165题（OG）

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What readers most commonly remember about John Stuart Mill’s classic exploration of the liberty of thought and discussion concerns the danger of (i) ______: in the absence of challenge, one’s opinions, even when they are correct, grow weak and flabby. Yet Mill had another reason for encouraging the liberty of thought and discussion: the danger of partiality and incompleteness. Since one’s opinions, even under the best circumstances, tend to (ii) _______, and because opinions opposed to one’s own rarely turn out to be completely (iii) ______, it is crucial to supplement one’s opinions with alternative points of view.

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(A) tendentiousness (D) embrace only a portion of truth (G) erroneous
(B) complacency       (E) change over time                     (H) antithetical
(C) fractiousness      (F) focus on matters close at hand (I) immutable

请教一下：第一个空答案B,那么是怎么从in the absence of challenge, one’s opinions, even when they are correct, grow weak and flabby.看出选complacency的？又是怎么排除的tendentiousness的呢？还是说有更好的推断方法？

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这句活‘ in the absence of challenge, one’s opinions, even when they are correct, grow weak and flabby’，lz没读懂吧。意思是如果没有周围人的质疑，挑战来促进观点理念的发展，那么即使这个理念是正确的，也会慢慢grow weak and flabby。而造成这种情形的就是complacency，即一个人因为自满，从而他不愿意接受某些与他观点想违背的理念，从而不利于该理念的发展

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这是OG的题目吧，你在标题注明一下来源，这样以后的同学方便搜索
Thanks for your understanding

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gjxwin 发表于 2013-8-14 12:52
这句活‘ in the absence of challenge, one’s opinions, even when they are correct, grow weak and fla ...

Thanks~我查complacency在韦氏中的解释是：self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies这可能更有助于句子理解 。