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  3. The list of candidates for greatest men of the 20th century is as short as it is extraordinary. Franklin Roosevelt is the ob

The list of candidates for greatest men of the 20th century is as short as it is extraordinary. Franklin Roosevelt is the ob

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问题     The list of candidates for greatest men of the 20th century is as short as it is extraordinary.
    Franklin Roosevelt is the obvious American 【C1】______. He guided the United States safely through the century’s gravest damages, the Great 【C2】______and World War II. His long lasting New Deal imprint still【C3】______America today.
    Let us not forget giants of science like Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison. But the list would not be complete【C4】______ the name of Nelson Mandela, the【C5】______South African President who died on Thursday at 95. It’s hard to name anyone, anywhere, in any time whose life is quite a【C6】______for his.
    Mandela led his people to freedom, ending the apartheid(种族隔离)rule of South Africa’s 【C7】______white-minority regime. But neither of those men,【C8】______ the others mentioned here, was put to such an extraordinary personal test.
    All you need to know to grasp the【C9】______ of Mandela is this: He spent 27 years in prison. He was given no hope and allowed little【C10】______ with the outside world. Yet instead of yielding to his plight—or【C11】______his cause by speaking a few words that【C12】______ him free—he persisted, fighting against all odds and emerging 【C13】______, a leader of such stature that his 【C14】______could not stand against him.
    And then, at his moment of【C15】______, with the presidency of South Africa in his hands, he 【C16】______not revenge for all that had been done to him【C17】______ racial peace for his people, black and white, which—incredibly—he achieved.
    Such is the power of history’s few【C18】______ great leaders and the examples they set. If Mandela could suffer【C19】______he did without seeking revenge, then how could others do any less? And how could the nation’s fearful and suspicious white minority【C20】______the olive branch?
【C9】
选项 A、uniqueness
B、strangeness
C、characteristics
D、novelty
答案A
解析 名词辨析题。上文提到没有人能与纳尔逊·曼德拉相媲美，也没有人经历过他那样的考验，那么此处应该填入[A]uniqueness，意为“独一无二，独特性”。[B]strangeness的意思是“奇怪，古怪”；[C]characteristics的意思是“特性，特征”；[D]novelty的意思是“新奇，新奇的事物”，均不符合文意，故排除。
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