Unlike her predecessor, Mayor Williams would not ____________ any
impertinence from her subordinates. Even a ____________ comment she
tended to construe as one full of ____________.
Blank (i)
discountenance
elicit
brook
Blank (ii)
seemingly innocuous
clearly tangential
somewhat ambivalent
Blank (iii)
subterfuge
prolixity
contumely
答案是3,1,3
我不太明白第二空,seeming不是"outwardly or superficially evident but not true or real"吗?那seemingly innocuous不就是实际上确实冒犯了市长了吗…