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For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

The artist was never very productive because of his (i); however, when a glowing review of his latest work was featured on the front page of (ii) newspaper, his confidence returned and he became what he had not been before, (iii) painter.

Blank (i)

poverty

standards

diffidence

Blank (ii)

a prestigious

an ostentatious

a local

Blank (iii)

an infamous

a perfunctory

a prolific

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