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：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。