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.
11（）
A.fix
B.discuss
C.consider
D.raise
参考答案：A
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文逻辑关系与动词词义辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格位于克林顿的直接引语中，空格处应填入一个动词，与其后的problem构成动宾搭配。前一句话意为“我认为我们应该暂时同舟共济一下(row in the same boat for a while)”；后一句话意为“然后再决定谁该负责，并表现情感”，代入四个选项，只有“解决问题”(fix the problem)符合文章逻辑，即先解决问题，然后再追究责任，故选项[A]正确。
[干扰排除] 其他三个选项虽都能与problem搭配，但代入文中分析发现“讨论问题”、“考虑问题”和“提出问题”显然不如“解决问题”更贴合句意，也不符合文章逻辑。