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.
18（）
A. call for
B. sum up
C. go over
D. look for
参考答案：D
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文逻辑关系与短语动词用法辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格位于句子的谓语部分，全句意为“他们本能地______解决方法”。此处的instead表明，该句与前一句形成转折。前一句意为“伟大的领导者并不急于批评”，联系前文中克林顿指出的“先解决问题(fix the problem)，然后再追究责任并表现感情”可知，空格所在句与此相呼应。四个选项中，符合此含义的只有选项[D]look for，其意为“寻求解决之道”。
[干扰排除] 选项[A]call for意为“要求，需要”，选项[B]sum up意为“总结，概括”，选项[C]go over意为“仔细研究；反复讨论”，将这三项代入文中，都与文章反复提到的“先解决问题，后追究责任”这一核心不符，故可排除。
