A new study finds that blacks on death row (1) of killing whites are more likely to be executed than whites who kill minorities. It also concludes that blacks who kill (2) minorities are (3) likely to be executed than blacks who kill whites. For example, there is more than a twofold greater risk that an African-American who killed a white will be executed than a white person who kills a (4) victim. A Hispanic is at least 1.4 (5) more likely to be executed (6) such an offender kills a white.
The researchers of the study believe that there are two (7) explanations.. First, prosecutors often win (8) office if they win well-publicized cases. When a black kills a white, such killings gets more (9) and this idea can be (10) by many famous cases. (11) , the court judges at the state level are often (12) to elections, called retention elections. Retention election or judicial retention within the United States court system, is a periodic process, in which the voter (13) approval or disapproval for the judges presently (14) their position, and a judge can be removed from the position if the (15) of the citizens vote him or her out. Just as the researchers (16) out, death penalty is (17) political.
The findings of the study, in short, show that American justice systems clearly (18) white lives more than those of blacks or Hispanics. The researchers also say their findings (19) serious doubts about (20) that the U.S. criminal justice system is colorblind.
12（）
A.submit
B.prone
C.subject
D.familiar
参考答案：C
解析：
[考点] 固定搭配
从本题后面紧跟的内容来看，留任选举对法官至关重要，因此法官不得不屈从于该选举，选项C正是此意，因此是正确答案。
[干扰项分析] 先从语法上判断，选项A是动词原形，无法与空格前的be搭配，故而首先排除。B选项prone的搭配是be prone to do sth“倾向于做某事”，而本题空格后跟的是elections(名词)，不合语法。另外，D选项familiar的常见搭配是be familiar with“熟悉”，be familiar to“为……所熟悉”，倘若选择D，空格后面跟的是to，自然就成了be familiar to“为……所熟悉”，代入句中，意为“法官为选举所熟悉”，显然不合逻辑，因此排除选项D。