No work illustrated his disdain for a systematic approach to research better than his dissertation, which was rejected primarily because his bibliography constituted, at best, ________ survey of the major texts in his field.
【正确答案】 E
【答案解析】- 方程等号：because因为，同义重复。
- 强词和对应：no…better than…否定词+比较级，在一起出现相当于两次取反，不改变句子逻辑方向。根据题意，没有作品能比他的专题论文更好地表现他对系统性研究方法的不屑，because前后同方向，所以空格要体现他的参考书目是对系统性研究方法的不屑，所以空格应该填“不系统”的含义。unimaginative没有想象力的，orthodox正统的，meticulous极其谨慎的，comprehensive全面的，haphazard随意的。答案选E。