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.
5（）
A.longer
B.years
C.time
D.times
参考答案：D
解析：
[考点] 固定表达
从本段前几句我们可以看出总是白人和非白种人在对比，而Hipic这个词显然不是白种人的意思，我们即使不知道意思，也可以猜测出又是一个非白色人种的表达。另外，such an offender中的such是指示代词“这种”，那也就意味着它指代的名词在前面已经出现，而本句前面除去两个空格，只有九个单词一个数字，九个单词中只有Hipic形容词当名词用作主语，因而可以判定such an offender就是指Hipic。那么句子的意思我们就可以大致猜出来：“一个西班牙裔人更容易被处死，……这个西班牙裔人杀死的是白人”。本题空格跟在数字后面、more likely之前，也就是说必须能和数字搭配一起修饰后面的more likely。显然只有D选项times符合题意，是正确答案。
[干扰项分析] 其他几个选项引入句子，语法上均无法搭配。B选项years能跟在数字之后，但与后面的more likely相接，则成了“1.4 years more likely”，语意不通。