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  3. The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent【C1】______that tensions over inequality in wealth now【C2】______tensions over race and i

The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent【C1】______that tensions over inequality in wealth now【C2】______tensions over race and i

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问题     The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent【C1】______that tensions over inequality in wealth now【C2】______tensions over race and immigration. But income inequality isn’t really the problem. A new upper class is the problem. And their wealth isn’t what sets them【C3】______or creates so much【C4】______toward them.
    Let’s take a guy—call him Hank—who built a successful auto-repair business and【C5】______it to 30 locations, and now his【C6】______in the business is worth $100 million. He went to a second-tier state university, or maybe he didn’t complete college at all. He grew up in a working-class or middle-class home and married a woman who didn’t complete college, either. He now lives in a neighborhood with other rich people, but they’re mostly other people who got rich the same way he did. He has a lot of money, but he doesn’t have power or influence over national culture, politics or economy,【C7】______does he even have any particular influence over the culture, politics or economy of the city where he lives. He’s just rich.
    The new upper class is different. It consists of the people who run the country. By "the people who run the country," I mean a small【C8】______of people—well under 100,000, by a【C9】______definition—who are【C10】______for the films and television shows you watch, the news you see and read, the success (or failure) of the nation’s leading corporations and financial institutions and the jurisprudence, legislation and regulations produced by government.
    What makes the new upper class new is that its members not only have power and influence but also increasingly【C11】______a common culture that【C12】______them from the rest of the country. Fifty years ago, the people who rose to the most influential positions overwhelmingly had Hank’s kind of【C13】______, thoroughly【C14】______in the American mainstream. They have【C15】______tastes and preferences and seek out enclaves of others who share them. Their culture【C16】______little with the lifestyle or the popular culture of the rest of the nation; in fact, members of the new upper class increasingly【C17】______that mainstream lifestyle and culture. If this divide continues to widen, it will completely destroy【C18】______has made America’s national civic culture【C19】______: a fluid,【C20】______society where people from different backgrounds live side by side and come together for the common good.
【C10】
选项 A、charging
B、responsible
C、obliging
D、presiding
答案B
解析 横线处所在的句子是一个定语从句，对前文的a small set of people进行修饰，“这是一群……的人”，“他们制作电影、电视、新闻，他们决定公司的成败，金融机构和立法机构的运转……”。横线处应该填一个词表示“负责，总管”。charge有“负责，管理”的意思，但是往往用take charge of这个短语。responsible，表示“负责，管理”，形容词，固定搭配是sb．be responsible for sth．。例如，He is responsible for recruiting and training new staff．他负责招聘、培训新员工。oblige作为动词意思是“强迫、要求某人做某事”或者“某人有义务做某事”，例如，They were obliged to sell their house in order to pay their debts．他们被迫卖房还债。preside意思是“主持，负责”，作为不及物动词，后面加的介词往往是at和over，例如，The present director has presided over a rapid decline in the firm’s profitability．现任领导对公司利润的急剧下降负有责任。经过辨析，本题正确答案应该为[B]。
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