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.
19（）
A.timely
B.faulty
C.creative
D.secret
参考答案：B
解析：
[试题考点] 上下义语意关系和形容词词义辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格位于修饰句子主语Rudy Giuliani的定语从句中。仔细分析最后一段可知，该段首句是论点，而第二句则以Rudy Giuliani为例，说明该论点。第二句句意为“Rudy从一个有外遇问题的市长成为了911事件中的英雄人物”，其中定语从句意为“他没有停下来指责______的情报”。既然是情报受到指责，那么intelligence前面的形容词则应该表达负面的含义。代入四个选项，只有选项[B]faulty(错误的)符合文意。注意，答对此题需正确理解intelligence的含义，intelligence除了有“智力，脑力”的含义外，还有“情报”的意思，此处正是这个含义。
[干扰排除] 选项[A]timely意为“及时的”，选项[C]creative意为“有创造力的”，选项[D]secret意为“秘密的”，这三项都是对情报的肯定，不符合文意，故可排除。