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.
1（）
A.convicted
B.charged
C.believed
D.sentenced
参考答案：A
解析：
[考点] 动词+介词搭配
空格处需要一个过去分词做后置定语修饰the blacks on death row。根据后面的of killing，以及be executed(被处死)，可以判断出此处应该是先被控告，然后才会面临死刑，故选A项。
[干扰项分析] 把C选项带入本句中意为“据信杀了白人的黑人更容易判死刑”，言下之意那些判死刑与否是跟他人相信不相信有关，这显然不符合逻辑和本文的中心思想。D选项sentence作动词可表“宣判”，比如，He was sentenced to three years in prison(他被判处三年徒刑)。但此处空格后面跟的是介词of引导的短语，sentence无此搭配，故而不选。选项A、B都意为“被控告”，但搭配不同，be convicted of，be charged with。