307. Jason's gullibility was remarkable: he ______ the most outrageous assertions and was therefore much too easily ______ .
A. trusted, duped
B. processed, misjudged
C. proposed, deluded
D. repeated, apprehended
E. believed, imitated
308. Because curiosity is deemed the ______ of the scientific temperament, theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, renowned for the ceaseless questioning, was regarded by some as an _______ of the scientific spirit.
A. essence, incarnation
B. bane, advocate
C. crux, inception
D. hallmark, adversary
E. inverse, assimilation