magoosh一道verb题求解析

vivianjjyUID: 3801225

Unlike the performances of her youth, in which she seamlessly inhabited a role, the performances of her later years were ____________, as though she were calling out to audiences, “look how convincingly I can portray my character.”
答案：contrived

Priscilla4gUID: 3772955

感觉挺好理解的呀，unlike取反，youth和later years也是反义关系。空格与in which后面部分对应，后面说的是无缝融入一个角色，later years后就变成了contrived不自然的

xiaok0714UID: 3556552

contrived: having an unnatural or false appearance or quality

Unlike....in which she seamlessly "inhabited a role，"所以后面说的就是她不能seamlessly inhabit a role. as though后面也是在解释她的演技有多浮夸，所以选的词应该是带有不自然的意思。