求助一道填空题

dongzi111UID: 3550433

Like many eighteenth-century scholars who lived by cultivating those in power, Winckelmann neglected to neutralize, by some -----gesture of comradeship, the resentment his peers were bound to feel because of his----the high and mighty.
(A)    quixotic.. intrigue with
(B)    enigmatic.. familiarity with
(C)    propitiatory.. involvement with
(D)    salutary.. questioning of
(E)    unfeigned.. sympathy for

g7kevinUID: 3268825

C  .就是说这个winelman 跟有权势的人有些关系，引起同时人的不满，而他自己却没有做出一些讨好这些人的姿态来减轻这些个不满