Carcass wrote:
No less incendiary amongst the populace than many other “hot button” issues of the day, “fracking”— or hydraulic fracturing of the earth’s surface to acquire gas, a practice that mostly takes place in remote parts of the country— has been (i) ______ the national dialogue come election time, perhaps because voters are typically (ii) ______ environmental problems that do not occur in their own backyards, so to speak.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
(A) unfairly tarnished in | (D) misinformed about |
(B) a prominent theme in | (E) worked up over |
(C) curiously absent from | (F) unmoved by |
Clue here is problems that do not occur in their own backyards, when problems doesn't occur people TAKE IT easy since the problems are not affecting them. For the second blank something like take it easy word should be fine.
For the first one, since there are no contrasting words, the meaning should be the same as the second one for the first one.So here people don't want to discuss them should be applicable for the first one.
C and F suits the blanks.