问题
单项选择题
Home to ______ and gangsters, officials and laborers, refugees and artists, the city was, in its prime, a metropolis that exhibited all the hues of the human character.
A．magnates
B．magnets
C．machines
D．magnitudes
答案
参考答案：A
解析：[分析] 形近识别。 magnate有财势的地主或工业家，magnet有强大吸引力的人或物，magnitude重要，重要性。