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

By the beginning of the 20th Century, piano pedagogy had advanced fingering technique to such a degree that even students with a (i) were able, with targeted practice, to execute thorny passages, while exuding the (ii) of a polished salon pianist.

Blank (i)

modicum of dexterity

semblance of pitch

consummate technicality

Blank (ii)

superciliousness

sanguineness

aplomb

我的答案： 无