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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was named Person of the Year by Time m

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问题     Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was named Person of the Year by Time magazine on Wednesday,【S1】______him a helping hand as he tries to ward off【S2】______that might weaken the Fed’s independence.
    The selection puts the mild-mannered Bernanke, a former professor, in the company of U. S. President Barack Obama, Pope John Paul II and Russian President Vladimir Putin, among other【S3】______world figures the magazine has picked in past years.
    The Senate is considering Bernanke’s【S4】______to a second term to head the Fed—the U. S. central bank—and while he is expected to win【S5】______, criticism of the Fed among the public and members of Congress is at its highest in decades.
    The Fed worries that congressional second-guessing of its policy【S6】______would compromise its fiercely-guarded independence.
    One poll by Rasmussen Reports showed public support for Bernanke’s nomination at a scant 21 percent, with 41 percent【S7】______opposition, but he continues to enjoy support on Wall Street and among many lawmakers.
    " Ben is the person that【S8】______us from going over the edge of the danger and into the abyss(深渊)," said former Fed Governor Lyle Gramley, now a senior economic adviser at Soleil Securities.
    But Republican Senator Jim Bunning, one of the Fed’s sharpest critics, said Time’s pick was a reward for "failure".
    "Many of the problems our markets are facing right now could have been【S9】______had Chairman Bernanke not been asleep at the switch(玩忽职守，错过机会)," Bunning said in a statement.
    Time credited the 56-year-old Bernanke with【S10】______leadership that helped set the U. S. economy on a path to recovery even as he and other policy makers remain concerned about a high unemployment rate of 10 percent.
A)avoided I)nomination
B)confirmation J)policies
C)creative K)prominent
D)cute L)promotion
E)decisions M)proposals
F)denied N)putting
G)giving O)stating
H)kept [br] 【S10】
选项
答案 C
解析 名词leadership前缺少一个形容词。根据原文可知，《时代》之所以评选伯南克为今年的年度人物，是因为他凭借其富有创造力的领导能力帮助美国经济走上了复苏的道路，故creative与之相符。
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