C is a too weak word for the first blank.

Ruth Crawford not only brought a composer’s acumen ( a very smart approach ) to the notation of folk music but also handle it with the right reverence

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Can somebody please explain for the 1st blank how are we getting the sense of Reverence in the 1 st blank???

Like Béla Bartók, Ruth Crawford not only brought a composer’s acumen to the notation of folk music, she also had a marked (i)_________ the task.

reverence for the task: acumen........reverence

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Looking at the first statement "not only..also structure" makes it clear that we need a word that can align with acumen (positive word), detachment is quickly out.

Between reverence and curiosity, the former is a stronger word to go with acumen as it means profound respect.

Second blank is easy - minute details make it clear that fastidiousness should fit.

please explain 2nd blank.

This was clear in her agonizing over how far to try to represent the minute details of a performance in a written text, and this (ii)_________ makes her work a landmark in ethnomusicology.

We need a word that means that Ruth Crawford was very attentive to even minute detail of the performance.

Hence fastidiousness

this sentence ( represent the minute details of a performance in a written text)
makes me chose
curiosity - didacticism
I really hate this type of questions which can be interpreted in many faces

If u can see in the last sentence "makes her work a landmark in ethnomusicology" this shows that her work was renowned and hence got much respect (reverent).

I am sorry the expert's reply is a bit ambiguous.

For blank i); How is curiosity wrong as an option? If Ruth went through minute details, wouldn't it be logical to understand that she's highly curious about the work? Reverence is a very non-specific answer in the context. Any artist will have reverence for the work they are studying. How does reverence link to acumen?

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Like Béla Bartók, Ruth Crawford not only brought a composer’s acumen to the notation of folk music, she also had a marked (i)_________ the task. This was clear in her agonizing over how far to try to represent the minute details of a performance in a written text, and this (ii)_________ makes her work a landmark in ethnomusicology.



I understand your point and frankly I agree. After all the sentence is odd. C at a first look should be the right pick.

However, regardless what we think or like, we must use logic. ETS tests our logic and the sentence how it is structured not what could be or should be best

The key points here are NOT the blank , the sentence itself or else but the PERIOD. The full stop we do have right in the middle.

I am writing just for this purpose the grammar book for the GRe and afterward the new TC/SE guide. The former will be the backbone of the latter.

What information does provide us the full stop? well, contrary to the semicolo where is used in English to join ideas between the two independent clauses, the full stop put in contrast the ideas we do have in the first sentence vs the isead conveyed in the second sentence.

basically the first blank have to be in counter balance the second blank

Even though sounds weird or odd if we take a look at (regardless the sentence, suppose I did not read yet it)

detachment from and we try to pair with the other three blanks we have NO SENSE, whatsoever: detached from fastidiousness, what that means , logically ? nothing. The same is with E and F

curiosity about and we try to pair with fastidiousness, didacticism, and iconoclasm I am not sure we have a sense. maybe C and E..........maybe but it is still odd.

Only on this ground, we could pick A and D if I have to do a strategic guess

back to the sentence

Like Béla Bartók, Ruth Crawford not only brought a composer’s acumen to the notation of folk music, she also had a marked (i)_________ the task. This was clear in her agonizing over how far to try to represent the minute details of a performance in a written text, and this (ii)_________ makes her work a landmark in ethnomusicology.

Not sure of the first blank. From the sentence: she did bring in X and Y, so something positive. And she also had Z + X and Y. mhhhhhhhh See if my reasoning about the full stop is correct.

This was clear in her agonizing over how far to try to represent the minute details

Ah ah...........here we are: what she had towards the task (the first blank I did not pick yet) is showed, clearly, in her AGONIZING, in her suffering, in here hate to work on details. Actually, doing what she did she had a feeling of discomfort

Sooo, if she felt discomfort or I.E. she was NOT comfortable in what she did then she was bothered by that. She had a fastidiouness

Turns out, IF she had a fastidouness then she had a fear , a dread in what she was doing. Therefore, she approached the work with reverence and high respect.

She cannot have a fastidiouness, because she agonizing, and AT THE SAME TIME being curious to the task. She hate the task. And if she hat the task, she had a reverence to it.

I hope this was helpful now Sir

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