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.
9（）
A.complain
B.advice
C.blame
D.objection
参考答案：C
解析：
[试题考点] 上下文语意关系和名词用法辨析。
[解题思路] 本题空格位于considers后的宾语从句中，该从句包含由but连接的两个分句，前一分句意为“这是一个不公平的______”，后一分句意为“这提供了一个不同的、甚至更犀利的教训”，其中this指代上一段中提到的the conventional-wisdom criticism，故此处空格中应填入一个被unfair修饰的名词，呼应上一段的内容四个选项中，只有选项[C]blame(指责；批评)符合文意，代入文中意为“这是一个不公平的指责”。
[干扰排除] 选项[A]complain意为“抱怨；埋怨”，由于从句主语this指代的是上文中的criticism，故“批评是一个不公平的埋怨”不符合文意。选项[B]advice意为“建议；意见”，选项[D]objection意为“反对；异议”，这两项与“不公平的”无法构成合理的搭配，也不切合文意，故可排除。