Nobody, it seems, wants to be left out of Argentina’s current boom in television reality shows. After the success of local versi

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问题     Nobody, it seems, wants to be left out of Argentina’s current boom in television reality shows. After the success of local versions of "Big Brother" and "Survivor", a camera is now to be (1)_____ in the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada, to film everything (well, almost) (2)_____ President Fernando de la Rua gets (3)_____ to. The results will be edited and (4)_____ several times a day, (5)_____ the state channel, Canal 7; thus dispell, it is (6)_____, the notion that the president spends his time twiddling his thumbs to his economy minister, Domingo Cavallo, runs the country.
    This is a dangerous strategy. Mr. de la Rua’s predecessor, Carlos Menem, was famous for his love of show business, even closing his 1995 presidential campaign (7)_____ an appearance on the hit show "Videomatch". In deliberate (8)_____, before his election victory two years (9)_____. Mr. de la Rua (10)_____ in television commercials that he was a very boring man. Audiences agree: his appearances last year on several leading talk (11)_____ made their ratings fall. Worse, when he decided to make his own appearance on "Videomatch" last December, a member of the audience blamed him and left him (12)_____ embarrassed.
    With a congressional election (13)_____ in October, opinion (14)_____ suggest that over three-quarters of Argentines (15)_____ dissatisfied with Mr. de la Rua. That, says his circle, is at least partly due to his (16)_____ portrayal by Freddy Villarreal, an impressionist on "Videomatch", and by leading newspaper cartoonists, such as Nik in La Naeion.
    Mr. de la Rua’s team is apparently pressing the (17)_____ to be nicer. But it is unclear whether blanket (18)_____ will help the president win (19)_____ viewers, or whether they will vote that Fernando should (20)_____ the house in 2003.


选项 A、hoping
B、hoped
C、wishing
D、wished

答案B

解析 象希望的那样。本题测试点为动词用法和解析。句意是"某件事情被大家所期待",应用被动语态,hope和wish的区别是hope实现的可能性更大,故选hope。
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