问题
选择题
The audience waited in________silence while their aged speaker searched among his notes for the figures he could not remember.
A．respective
B．respect
C．respectful
D．respectable
答案
答案：C
C [考查形容词辨析。句意“当上了年纪的演讲者搜寻笔记寻找他不记得的数字的时候，观众们都充满敬意地默默等待。”respective意为“分别的”；respect意为“尊敬，敬重”；respectful“充满敬意的”；respectable“值得尊敬的”。结合句意可知选C项。]