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【题目】 No one is beyond the law, so it is _______ that the young talented university student was sentenced to death for murdering his roommate with poison.

A. avoidable B. surprising

C. reasonable D. astonishing

【答案】C

【解析】

试题分析：句意：不允许任何人超越法律，因此年轻有才华的大学生在投毒谋杀室友的案件审判中被判死刑是合理的。A. avoidable可避免的；B. surprising令人惊讶的； C. reasonable合理的；D. astonishing令人震惊的。根据语境判断是：判死刑是合理的，所以选C。

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"Well, Mr. Easton, if you will make me speak first, I suppose I must. Don't you ever recognize old friends when you meet them in the West?"

The younger man aroused himself sharply at the sound of her voice, seemed to struggle with a slight embarrassment which he threw off instantly, and then clasped her fingers with his left hand.

"It's Miss Fairchild," he said, with a smile. "I'll ask you to excuse the other hand; "it's otherwise engaged just at present."

He slightly raised his right hand, bound at the wrist by the shining "bracelet" to the left one of his companion. The glad look in the girl's eyes slowly changed to a bewildered horror. The glow faded from her cheeks. Her lips parted in a vague（含糊，犹豫）, relaxing distress. Easton, with a little laugh, as if amused, was about to speak again when the other forestalled him. The glum-faced man had been watching the girl's face expression with veiled glances from his keen, shrewd eyes.

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"I can't deny a require for tobacco," he said, lightly. "It's the one friend of the unfortunate. Good-bye, Miss Fairchild. Duty calls, you know." He held out his hand for a farewell.

"It's too bad you are not going East," she said, reclothing herself with manner and style. "But you must go on to Leavenworth, I suppose?"

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