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.
7（）
A.pressure
B.pain
C.shock
D.fear
参考答案：B
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系与名词词义辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格位于句子的宾语部分，其后分别跟of all those people以及定语从句，该句意为“他没有感受到所有处于危机中人们的______”。空格所在句前面的内容指出，人们“批评奥巴马没有充分地表现情绪”(he didn’t emote enough)，其后紧跟的定语从句则说明危机中的人们处境不容乐观。纵观四个选项，符合文意的只有选项[B]pain，此处pain既与emote以及定语从句的内容相符，也可以在第五段中的"feel the pain" 得到印证，故为正确选项。
[干扰排除] 选项[A]pressure意为“压力；压迫”，[C]shock意为“震惊，惊讶”，选项[D]fear意为“恐惧，害怕”，代入文中意为“奥巴马没有体会到处于危机中人们的压力、惊讶、恐惧”，显然不符合文意，故排除。