求解答几道填空题

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1. Stories are a haunted genre; hardly (i) kind of story, the ghost story is almost the paradigm of the form, and (ii) was undoubtedly one effect that Poe had in mind when he wrote about how stories work.

A a debased D pessimism
B a narrative E goosebumps
C a meticulous F curiosity
hardly在所以取反paradigm, debased这里是贬义吧。有点不太确定
2. The most striking thing about the politician is how often his politics have been (i) rather than ideologist, as he adapts his political position at any particular moment to the political realities that constrain them. He does not, however, piously (ii) political principles only to betray them in practice. Rather, he attempts in subtle ways to balance his political self-interest with a (iii), viewing himself as an instrument of some unchanging higher purpose.

A quixotic             D brandish    G profound cynicism
B self-righteous     E flout          H deeply felt moral code
C strategic             F follow        I thoroughgoing pragmatism
第二空不太懂为什么选了brandish
3 The question of (i) in photography has lately become nontrivial. Prices for vintage prints (those made by a photographer soon after he or she made the negative) so drastically (ii) in the 1990s that one of these photographs might fetch a hundred times as much as a nonnegative print of the same image. It was perhaps only a matter of time before someone took advantage of the (iii) to peddle newly created "vintage" prints for profit.

A forgery    D ballooned    G discrepancy
B influence  E weakened    H ambiguity
C style        F varied          I duplicity
第三空的discrepancy， 希望有人可以给出一个逻辑通顺的解释，我有点掰不清楚。

我Me是个好人UID: 3724812

第一题你的思路是对的，后面有paradigm n.典范，这里有hardly取反，所以一定是填一个负向词，可选的就只有A。

第二题其实你只要注意到后面的subtle就行了，就是说他不是大大咧咧的，而是以一种微妙的方式去怎样怎样。

第三题是选ADG？我的理解是先看后面两句话，大意就是说vintage prints的价格在20世纪90年代剧烈____，以至于这样的一张photograph可以在内容相同的情况下卖出数百倍于nonnegetive print的价格（fetch在这里就是卖钱的意思，佛脚里有收录），因而通过这种____赚钱只不过是时间问题。通过句意可以推出第三空的内容应该是类似于“差价”这样的词，可选的就只有G。第二空比较简单D。第一空说近来什么问题在摄影界变得重要了，注意最后一句的newly created “vintage”，加了引号说明并不是真的vintage，所以选A。话说我差点把nontrivial理解成trivial，sad...