2. 外语
  3. A. selfless B. built C. complex D. but E. execute F. sustained G. cheated H. issues I. advantages J. scholarly K. tighte

A. selfless B. built C. complex D. but E. execute F. sustained G. cheated H. issues I. advantages J. scholarly K. tighte

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问题     A. selfless B. built C. complex D. but E. execute
    F. sustained G. cheated H. issues I. advantages J. scholarly
    K. tighter L. costly M. looser N. concerned O. drawback
    Lawyers are less than 1% of American adults,【C1】______ they are well-represented in government. Both the president and the vice-president trained as lawyers. So did 55% of senators and 100% of Supreme Court justices. There are【C2】______ to having a bit of legal expertise among those who write and【C3】______ the nation’s laws, or assess their constitutionality. But there is also a potential conflict of interest. If florists had such a lock on the levers of power, you might expect subsidies for weddings and a campaign to beautify cities. Lawyers, alas, are no more【C4】______.
    The American legal system is the most lawyer-friendly on Earth. It is dizzily【C5】______. The regulations that accompany the Dodd-Frank law governing Wall Street, for example, are already more than 3 million words long—and not yet half-written. Companies must hire【C6】______ lawyers to guide them through a labyrinth(迷宫)created by other lawyers. They must also hire lawyers to defend themselves against attacks by other lawyers on a playing field【C7】______ by lawyers. The cost—roughly $800 a year for every American—is passed on to consumers. The benefits are hard to detect. Americans are probably no less likely to be injured or【C8】______ than the citizens of countries that spend a fraction as much.
    So it is hard to feel sympathy for lawyers facing a【C9】______ labour market. America’s 250 biggest law firms shed more than 9,500 people last year. Law students are struggling to find the lavishly paid work they expected after graduation. One big law firm even went bust. None of this is nice for the people【C10】______, especially those with large student debts.
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答案B
解析 由空格后的by可确定空格处应填入过去分词。a playing field——by lawyers与前文的alabyrinth created by other lawyers结构对称，故空格所填单词应与created意思相近，词库中的built“建造”符合要求。
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