Beyond question, Clinton was supposed to close up, stay out of sight, and avoid second- guessing his wife’s boss. After his ego blustered into oncoming traffic during Hillary’s heated primary race (1) Obama, the nation suffered from yet another turn of Clinton fatigue.
(2) this week Bill Clinton showed an instinct for robust, inclusive leadership that the (3) White House occupant could make good use of right for the time being. With President Obama struggling to (4) the political damage from the Gulf oil spill, Clinton not only can’t help himself—he’s worth being listened.
The conventional-wisdom (5) on President Obama’s early reaction to the spill was (6) he didn’t emote enough. He didn’t feel the (7) of all those people in the crisis whose livelihood would be destroyed, whose clean waters and wildlife would be (8) in black gunk.
Clinton considers this is an unfair (9) but offers a different—and more pointed— lesson to his young successor. "I think we ought to (10) in the same boat for a while... Let’s just (11) the problem, and then we can hold everybody responsible and emote or not emote, " Clinton conversed (12) CNN Anchor Wolf Blitzer.
Obama’s first (13) after the oil spill was to "feel the blame" rather than "feel the pain, " which are pretty sarcastic words as it were. No one intends to let British Petroleum (BP) management (14) the hook—for dangerously cutting corners, and for a (15) safety record. However, the President’s (16) focus on scolding BP consumed (17) White House energy while the oil gushed.
Great leaders don’t rush to criticise; Instead they instinctively (18) solutions. Rudy Giuliani, who didn’t stop to blame (19) intelligence for letting it happen, stood out from New York mayor with a girlfriend problem to 9/11 hero when he took control of a crisis and instilled confidence that a ravaged city could (20) beyond a terrorist attack.
3（）
A.general
B.common
C.intensive
D.current
参考答案：D
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系与形容词义词辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格位于修饰leadership的定语从句中，该定语从句的意思为“______白宫当权者在眼下可以好好借鉴的”，四个选项都是形容词，说明空格为一形容词修饰定语从句的主语“白宫当权者(White House Occupant)”，代入四个选项，只有选项[D]符合文意，意为“目前白宫的当权者”，即指后文中提到的奥巴马政府。
[干扰排除] 选项[A] general意为“一般的；普通的”，选项[B]common意为“普通的；常见的”，选项[C]intensive意为“集中的；密集的”，此处作者意在说明“奥巴马政府”，而这三项都无法与后面的“白宫当权者”构成符合文意的搭配。