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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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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