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问题     Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to【C1】______their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president’s palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then【C2】______to publish it. The article began: "Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which【C3】______the president’s palace". The editor at once sent the journalist a fax【C4】______him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
    The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but they took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting【C5】______, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no【C6】______. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had【C7】______been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been【C8】______, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he【C9】______the editor that the he had been arrested while【C10】______the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president’ s palace.
A)provide B)optimistic C)counting D)reply
E)refused F)surrounds G)impatient H)understanding
I)instructing J)originally K)indifferent L)arrested
M)sensitive N)informed O)estimates [br] 【C3】

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答案 F

解析 这里填动词,为台阶和宫殿的关系,又根据空处所在句是which引导的修饰先行词wall的定语从句,且空处在从句中作谓语,整个句子为一般现在时,wall为单数,所以此空应填入动词的三单形式。故选surrounds,意为“围绕宫殿的台阶”。
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