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.
8（）
A.driven
B.shunned
C.drowned
D.killed
参考答案：C
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系和动词词义辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格所在部分是修饰all those people的另一个定语从句，且空格处应填入一个动词，作该从句的谓语。该从句的主语为clean waters and wildlife(纯净的水域与野生动物)，将各选项代入空格，只有选项[C]切合文意。选项[C]drown意为“淹没或浸透某物”，代入文中意为“他们的纯净水源以及野生动物都会被淹没在漆黑黏稠的液体中”。
[干扰排除] 选项[A](be)driven意为“被迫；被逼”，选项[B](be)shunned意为“被避免；被避开”，选项[D](be)killed意为“被杀死”，均无法与主语之一clean waters构成搭配，故排除这三项。