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.
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A.the
B.a
C.some
D.other
参考答案：D
解析：
[考点] 上下文语义+词义辨析
本题要选出答案关键在于对比前面一句中的also一词，清楚表明了跟第一句话是递进关系，而非转折关系。第一句话讲“谋杀白人的黑人比谋杀其他人种的白人更容易判处死刑”，表明白人的命更金贵。那么第二句应该是表达同样的意思。“blacks who kill (2) minorities”和“blacks who kill whites”，很明显就是两个黑人，文中表明第二个是杀白人的黑人，与此形成对比，另一个黑人显然杀的不是白人。据此我们初步判定空格处是想表达“非白色人种”，故选D。
[干扰项分析] 选项B首先排除，因为空格后是名词复数，不能连用。代入选项A，the minorities”那些少数民族(人种)”，minorities在上文并未出现，因此不能连用，代入选项C，some minorities“一些少数民族(人种)”，此处的“某些少数民族(人种)”到底指哪些人种呢我们在下文根本找不到答案，故排除。