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.
17（）
A.abundant
B.valuable
C.surplus
D.restless
参考答案：B
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系和形容词词义辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格所在句句意为“总统最开始将焦点放在指责英国石油公司会消耗白宫______精力”，空格处应填入一个形容词修饰宾语energy，将四个选项代入文中，只有选项[B]最符合文意，意为“消耗白宫宝贵的精力”。
[干扰排除] 选项[A]abundant(energy)意为“丰富的精力”，选项[C]surplus(energy)意为“过剩的精力”，选项[D]restless(energy)意为“令人躁动的精力”，此处作者意在表达“最开始不解决问题会消耗精力”，故“白宫的精力”不可能是“过剩的”，即使再“丰富的精力”，也不能随意消耗，而“令人躁动的精力”明显不符合原文，故可排除这三项。