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

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.

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unfairly tarnished in

a prominent theme in

curiously absent from

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misinformed about

worked up over

unmoved by

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