第二篇：
      If you’re an artist, you probably have an opinion about Bob Ross, and I’m no exception to that. Personally, Ithink in his life he did a lot of good—most notably by encouraging   46   numbers of people to start painting,even if they’d been discouraged from doing art before. But there are a few problems with the Bob Ross Methodwhich have kept me from being a   47   of what he taught. First of all, the way that Bob Ross teaches, most ofhis students’ paintings end up looking just   48   his. This may be fine in the beginning, but all it does in thelong run is encourage a   49   on Bob Ross. In other words, what happens when a truly dedicated “Bob RossMethod” painter wants to paint a scene that Bob never covered? Where do they go for help? There’s reallynowhere to go. They’re stuck, because they were never taught how to   50   ideas for paintings on their own.
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(A) thickening
(B) countless
(C) diminished
(D) grateful