I’m Struggling with Text Completion

The kind of TC problems I’m struggling is
Example 1- The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ____ the_____to abuse them.

As you can see it is quite hard for me to guess the blanks correctly.

The kind of problems I’m not struggling with
Example 2-
Although adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing ______with regard to onset and duration.

Here with above example it is quite evident that the blank is going to contrast the word (orderly sequence)

But with the Example 1 I am not really able to find the word that would help me fill the blank.
So what advice would you guys give me which would help me solve the Example 1 kind of questions correctly.