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Foreign financiers complaining about the legal wars they will launch to recover bad debts in Russia rarely mean much. The expens
Foreign financiers complaining about the legal wars they will launch to recover bad debts in Russia rarely mean much. The expens
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2010-06-17
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问题
Foreign financiers complaining about the legal wars they will launch to recover bad debts in Russia rarely mean much. The expense of a lawsuit (1)_____ the satisfaction; the chances of getting any money are (2)_____.
Yet Noga, a company owned by Nessim Gaon, a 78-year-old businessman (3)_____ in Geneva, has been suing the Russian government since 1993, attempting to (4)_____ Russian assets abroad. At Mr. Gaon’s request, bailiffs last week very nearly (5)_____ two of Russia’s most advanced warplanes at the Paris air (6)_____. The organisers (7)_____ off the Russian authorities, and the planes flew home, just (8)_____ time. (9)_____ near-misses include a sail-training ship, the Sedov, nuclear-waste shipments, and the president’s plane.
Mr. Gaon, whose previous business partners include regimes in Nigeria and Sudan, put an (10)_____ clause in his original export deals: Russia must abandon its sovereign immunity. An arbitration court in Stockholm has found in his (11)_____, so far, to the (12)_____ of $110 million, out of a total (13)_____ of $420 million. Other courts (14)_____ the world have let him have a (15)_____ at any Russian assets (16)_____ reach.
The odd thing is (17)_____ Russia. now awash with cash, does not simply pay up. Mr. Gaon says he was told at one point that a 10% (18)_____ on the debt to someone high up in the finance ministry would solve things. (19)_____ off Mr. Gaon costs much in legal fees. Not accepting international judgments sits ill with the current Kremlin line (20)_____ the rule of law. Mr. Gaon says his next move will be to seize Russia’s embassy in Paris.
选项
A、thin
B、slim
C、lean
D、wiry
答案
B
解析
能收回钱的可能性微乎其微。本题测试点为形容词词义辨析和用法。根据句意,是说可能性很小,thin一般用来形容有形的物质,表示"瘦的,薄弱的";slim可形容机会渺小,如slim chance of Success;lean"瘦的,贫瘠的";wiry一般用来形容人,意为"瘦长的"。故选slim。
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