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

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.
【C19】
选项 A、accessible
B、amiable
C、agreeable
D、accountable
答案D
解析 考查形容词辨析。此句的后半句为by引导的方式状语，用来说明前半句“法官怎样来减少对法庭裁决公正性的质疑”。由常识可知，法官只有对行为准则负责，遵循一定的道德判断，才可确保其裁决的公正与合理，故选D．accountable，be accountable to“对…负责”。accessible“可接近的，能得到的”；amiable“和蔼可亲的”；agreeable“令人愉快的，适合的”，均不符合题意。
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