German Chancellor Angela Merkel won over German voters in the Federal Election on Sept. 27. Can she now be won over by a French charm offensive (1) at repairing the relationship that was once at the heart of Europe That’s the question being asked in Paris, (2) top government officials are (3) talking about their desire to rekindle closer ties (4) their neighbors across the Rhine. (5) the end of World War II the Franco-German relationship has been the motor of European integration, the (6) force behind the creation of the European Union and, more recently, the introduction of the euro. But the ardor has (7) in this decade, particularly under Merkel, who has regularly struggled to (8) her irritation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s grandstanding. Sarkozy, (9) , has often been impatient with what he (10) Merkel’s lack of resolve.
The sometimes (11) personal rapport is a long way from the public shows of affection their predecessors staged, particularly Helmut Kohl and FranCois Mitterrand, who movingly held (12) in 1984 in a Verdun cemetery. There’s been tension on (13) , too. Charles Grant, director of the London-based think tank Centre for European Reform, points out that France and Germany have been (14) on issues from how best to reflate their economies during the economic (15) to the smartest strategies for dealing with Russia.
But influential movers in France are now (16) to put the relationship back on a friendlier footing. In a recent paper French think tank Institute Montaigne (17) an ambitious agenda for the two nations, (18) that a new impetus is needed if Europe’s voice is to be heard in a world (19) of big new players, such as Brazil and India, and at a time when President Obama seems fax more (20) with China and the rest of Asia than with America’s traditional allies in Europe.
3（）
A.confidentially
B.openly
C.zealously
D.conservatively
参考答案：B
解析：
[解题思路] 分析这个分句．句子结构完整，由此可知空格处需要填入副词修饰动词talking作状语。本句意为“高级政府官员______讨论与莱茵河对岸的邻国重建更紧密联系的愿望”。既然是开会讨论，那么应该是公开性的言论，由此可知[B] openly符合题意。[A] confidentially，用法举例：He told me confidentially that he’s thinking of resigning next year．他私下告诉我他正打算明年辞职。开会表达的愿望不应该是私下讨论的。故排除[A]。文章并未涉及高级政府官员开会时的情绪状况，故排除[C] zealously。开会讨论的事情就不应该有保守意见，所以[D] conservatively也不符合语境，用法举例：Benefits in the reform of reductions in acute health effects and increased agricultural output were conservatively estimated at $5 billion．从减少重大健康影响和提高农业产量的改革中所获得的利润，保守估计也有50亿美元。