A certain amount of theoretical frenzy about comics today is (i) ________, After all, similar frenzies have been in other art forms in periods of their rapid development, for instance, the debates about painting that roiled Renaissance Italy. But such intellectual (ii) ________ rarely precedes creative glory. On the contrary, it commonly indicates that an artistic (iii) ________, having been made and recognized, is over, and that a process of increasingly strained emulation and diminishing returns has set in.
Blank (i)
A. understandable
B. unprecedented
C. perplexing
Blank (ii)
D. torpor
E. conservation/-ism
F. arousal
Blank (iii)
G. pitfall
H. tradition
I. breakthrough
答案是afi,但是我怎么觉得是AFG呢,因为句中有一个转折,by the contrary,然后说这样一个现象很少带来后续的创造性的辉煌,所以我选择了相对negative的G。