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.
17（）
A. turned out
B. laid out
C. made out
D. gave out
参考答案：B
解析：
[解题思路] 本题考查对动词词组的辨析。本句大意为“最近有一篇文章说，法国智囊团蒙田学院为两国______一项重大议程”，根据空格后的agenda“议程”可知，能与其搭配的词组为[B] laid out。其他三个词组与agenda搭配都不符合题意，故排除。[A] turned out用法举例：He turned out to be a well-organized young man．结果证明，他是个有条理的年轻人。[C] made out用法举例：She’s not as rich as people make her out to be．她并不像人们说的那么富有。[D] gave out用法举例：Her patience gave out．她失去了耐心。