2. 外语
  3. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to【C1】______their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last ye

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to【C1】______their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last ye

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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
【C1】
选项
答案A
解析 根据前面的to推测这里需要一个动词．且是动词原形．可以选的有provide和reply，这里符合题意的是provide，provide…with…是固定搭配，意为“提供……”。
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