Explanation

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The television promotes a discontinuity of emotions because it recalls unnatural evocation. I.E the television interrupts the natural flow of emotions or thoughts of people. As for the second blank the key word is : feelings. Incompatible means unable to exist together in harmony; or in this case, more refined, the second blank means discordant .

Especially the second blank to pick right you must consider a negative effect that television provide to the consumers. E and F are positive instead in their meaning.
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Television promotes (i) _____ of emotion in viewer through an unnatural evocation,ever five minutes,of different and (ii) _____feelings.
Blank(i)
a withdrawal
An obscuring
a discontinuity

Blank(ii)
Incompatible
Sympathetic
Interminable

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why not option B?

Because television triggers a process that creates an interruption in the continuity of the flow of the emotions.

C is the answer. We do not have clues about B in the entire sentence

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I chose the answer as A & D, while I do understand your explanation on why the 1st blank is C, I do not understand what's wrong with A?

elevision promotes (i) _________ of emotion in viewers through an unnatural evocation, every five minutes, of different and (ii) __________ feelings.

The red part suggests you that the word - and the consequently feeling - is unconstant or discontinued.

A doe snot make sense at all

Hope now is more clear to you

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Television promotes (i) _________ of emotion in viewers through an unnatural evocation, every five minutes, of different and (ii) __________ feelings.

We know that it evokes an emotion unnaturally every five minutes. This will only lead to a discontinuity of emotion, not an obscuring or a withdrawal, for there is no information in the sentence to suggest the latter two. And since the feelings are different, that further confirms our choice of discontinuity. For the second blank, we need a synonym of different and also a word which will complete the full meaning of the sentence. The discontinuity can be promoted only if the feelings are incompatible, not if they are sympathetic or interminable.
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why not obscurity for the first blank? obscurity means difficult to understand / complex? so because the emotion changes every FIVE MINUTES, therefore it's hard to understand?

can someone clarify what the meaning of obscurity is here?

Because the feeling and emotions change every five minutes , our clue is NOt they are hidden or obscurity but they are discontinued, they are seamlessly

Hope this helsp
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