413. The ambitious politican promoted the tax cuts not so much for the citizens' ______ as for his own ______ .
A. reception, guarantee
B. welfare, reputation
C. disbelief, goodness
D. treachery, persistence
E. prosperity, downfall
414. Although certainly talented, the child could not really be called ______ : there was nothing particularly ______ about his achievements.
A. a virtuoso, precocious
B. a genius, fanatical
C. a natural, affected
D. a prodigy, exceptional
E. an upstart, modest