Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted Beneath the sentence ate five, words or sets of words labeled A through E. Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. 

Example: Medieval kingdoms did not become constitutional republics overnight; on the contrary, the change was ----. 

{A) unpopular (B) unexpected (C) advantageous (D) sufficient (E) gradual

 The speech was a ---- of random and contradictory information that could not be integrated into ----, consistent whole. 

(A) collage .. a rambling

(B) development .. an ambiguous

C) hodgepodge .. a coherent

(D) morass .. an amorphous

(E) harangue .. an unintelligible