I was so bored with the verbose and redundant style of Victorian novelists that I welcomed the change to the ______ style of Hemingway.

单项选择题It is only to the vain that all is vanity; and all is ______ only to those who have never been ______ themselves.

单项选择题We are ______ the intellects of the past; or, rather, like children we take it for granted that somebody must supply us with our supper and our ______.