The ethical judgments of the Supreme Court justices have become an important issue recently. The court cannot 【C1】______ its leg

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问题     The ethical judgments of the Supreme Court justices have become an important issue recently. The court cannot 【C1】______ its legitimacy as guardian of the rule of law 【C2】______justices behave like politicians. Yet, in several instances, justices acted in ways that 【C3】______ the court’s reputation for being independent and impartial.
    Justice Antonin Scalia, for example, appeared at political events. That kind of activity makes it less likely that the court’s decisions will be【C4】______as impartial judgments. Part of the problem is that the justices are not【C5】______by an ethics code. At the very least, the court should make itself【C6】______to the code of conduct that【C7】______to the rest of the federal judiciary.
    This and other similar cases【C8】______the question of whether there is still a【C9】______between the court and politics. The framers of the Constitution envisioned law 【C10】______ having authority apart from politics. They gave justices permanent positions 【C11】______ they would be free to 【C12】______those in power and have no need to 【C13】______ political support. Our legal system was designed to set law apart from politics precisely because they are so closely【C14】______.
    Constitutional law is political because it results from choices rooted in fundamental social 【C15】______like liberty and property. When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it【C16】______ is inescapably political—which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily【C17】______ as unjust.
    The justices must【C18】______doubts about the court’ s legitimacy by making themselves【C19】______to the code of conduct. That would make rulings more likely to be seen as separate from politics and, 【C20】______, convincing as law.
【C8】

选项 A、evade
B、raise
C、deny
D、settle

答案B

解析 考查动词辨析。本句起着承上启下的作用。全文的主旨是“法庭法官和政治应该区分开来”,然后作者举了个反面例子,引出了这句话:“这些案件______问题:究竟法庭和政治之间的界限是否还存在。”raise the question of意为“提出了…的问题”,符合全文的逻辑,故选B.raise。evade“规避,逃避”和settle“处理,解决”,不符合上下文逻辑。deny“否认”和后面的“the question of whether…”构不成搭配。
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