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.
5（）
A.criticism
B.warning
C.advice
D.compliment
参考答案：A
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系和名词词义辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格所在部分"The conventional-wisdom ______" 为句子的主语，其后是介宾短语on President Obama’s early reaction to the spill作后置定语解释说明主语，谓语为系动词was，该句意为“对奥巴马总统最初的反应的普遍______是……”，根据后面的he didn’t emote enough(他情绪表现得不够)可知，这是对其最初反应的负面评价，四个选项中，只有选项[A]可表达此含义。criticism作名词时，意为“指责；批评”。
[干扰排除] 选项[B]warning意为“警告”，选项[C]advice意为“劝告；建议”，选项[D]complement意为“赞美；称赞”，这三项均与后文中的he didn’t emote enough不符，故可排除。