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.
13（）
A.research
B.instinct
C.plan
D.strategy
参考答案：B
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系和名词词义辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格所在句句意为“奥巴马在漏油事件发生后的最初______是想到罪责而不是感受痛苦”。由第三段中的early reaction to the spill和the didn’t feel the pain中，可知此处的feel the blame rather than feel the pain即是奥巴马的early reaction。代入四个选项，选项[B]可使句意通顺。instinct意为“本能(通常是对某一具体环境刺激的反应)”，此句意为“奥巴马的第一反应”。注意，此处instinct和第二段首句中show an instinct中的instinct含义不同，第二段的instinct意为“天资”。
[干扰排除] 选项[A]。research意为“研究”，选项[C]plan意为“计划，蓝图”，选项[D]strategy意为“策略，战略”，这三项都过于具体，“奥巴马想到罪责而不是感受痛苦”这不是具体的“行动”、“计划”或者“策略”，而是一种本能的反应。