Directions: For the following questions, select the two
answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the
sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in
meaning. Perhaps because something in us instinctively distrusts such displays
of natural fluency, some readers approach John Updike’s fiction with ______.
A. wariness
B. indifference
C. suspicion
D. veneration
E. bewilderment
F. remorse