Everything seemed to have become a weapon of war. Our enemies had (1)_____ the most familiar objects (2)_____ us, turned shaving

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问题     Everything seemed to have become a weapon of war. Our enemies had (1)_____ the most familiar objects (2)_____ us, turned shaving kits into holsters and airplanes (3)_____ missiles and soccer coaches and newlyweds into involuntary suicide bombers. So it was (4)_____ the President and his generals to plot the response.
    That is because we are (5)_____ one enemy but two: one unseen, the other inside. Terror on this scale (6)_____ to wreck the way we live our lives make us flinch when a siren sounds, (7)_____ when a door slams and think twice before deciding (8)_____ we really have to take a plane. If we falter, they win, (9)_____ they never plant another bomb. So after the early helplessness, what can I do? I’ve already given blood-people started to realize that (10)_____ they could do was exactly, as precisely as possible, (11)_____ they would have done if all this (12)_____.
    That was the spirit (13)_____ in New York and Washington and all across the country, faith and fear and resolve in a tight braid. Because the killers who hate us did the (14)_____, nothing is unthinkable now. A plume of grill smoke venting from a Manhattan steak house (15)_____ the evacuation of midtown office towers. After the Pentagon (16)_____, generals called their families and told them (17)_____ the water, it could be poisoned. Sales of guns and gas masks spiked. The National Football League (18)_____ its games for the first time ever; bomb scares emptied 90 sites on Thursday in New York City (19)_____. People wore sneakers with their suits (20)_____ they had to fly fast down the stairs.

选项 A、forbade
B、prohibited
C、canceled
D、cut down

答案C

解析 canceled its games取消比赛。其他选项:forbade禁止;prohibited不准;cut down减少。
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