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  3. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to【C1】______their r

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to【C1】______their r

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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] 【C8】
选项
答案 L
解析 可以看出这里是被动语态，故这里是过去分词。符合的有informed和arrested，在递进关系后，作者说他被关进了监狱，可以猜测这里也是被逮捕，故选arrested。
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