Even the Saudis—or rather, the small number of men who actually rule their troubled country—are giving ground in the struggle fo

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问题     Even the Saudis—or rather, the small number of men who actually rule their troubled country—are giving ground in the struggle for women’s rights. For sure, the recommendations (1)_____ this week to Crown Prince Abdullah at the end of an (2)_____ round of "national dialogue" concentrating on the role of women were fairly tame. In the reformers-versus-reactionaries (3)_____ test of whether women should be allowed to drive cars (at present they cannot do so in the kingdom, nor can they travel unaccompanied, by whatever (4)_____ of motion), the king was merely asked to" (5)_____ a body to study a public transport system for women to facilitate mobility". (6)_____ mention, of course, of the right to vote—but then that has been (7)_____ to men too, though local elections, on an apparently universal franchise, are supposed to be held in October. In sum, it is a tortoise’s progress. But the very fact of the debate happening at all is (8)_____—and hopeful.
    It is not just in Saudi Arabia that more rights for women are being demanded (9)_____ across the whole of the Arab and Muslim world. The pushy Americans have made women’s rights part of their appeal for greater democracy in (10)_____ they now officially call the "broader Middle East", to include non-Arab Muslim countries such as Iran, Turkey and even Afghanistan. Many Arabs have cautioned the Americans against seeking to (11)_____ their own values on societies with such different traditions and (12)_____ Many leading Muslims have (13)_____ the culturally imperious Americans of seeking to (14)_____ Is lam. The (15)_____ for more democracy in the Muslim world issued by leaders of the eight biggest industrial countries was watered down for fear of giving (16)_____ Yet, despite the Arabs’ prickliness, the Americans have helped pep up a debate that is now bubbling fiercely in the Arab world, even (17)_____ many Arab leaders, none of whom is directly elected by the people, are understandably (18)_____ of reforms that could lead to their own toppling. Never before have women’s rights in the Arab world been so (19)_____ debated. That (20)_____ is cause to rejoice.


选项 A、lonely
B、solo
C、alone
D、logo

答案C

解析 lonely孤独的;寂寞的、solo独奏;独唱;单飞、alone仅仅;只有、logo标识。本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。本题所在句的前一句(即尾段倒数第二句)是一个倒装句(由"never"一词引导),该句的大意是:"阿拉伯世界的女权以前从未如此激烈地争论过"。本题所在句(即尾段尾句)是对其上一句(尾段倒数第二句)的总论,其大意是:"仅仅这一点就是欣喜的理由"。由此可以推导出本题的正确答案应该是"alone"(仅仅)。在解题时一定要注意上下句之间的语意连接。
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