Question

        his bookishness, curiously little is known about the worldview of Gordon Brown, the first British Prime Minister said to be a real intellectual in decades

1. A.
   Though
2. B.
   As
3. C.
   In spite that
4. D.
   Despite

Answer 1

D
考查despite的用法，是介词后面接名词或动名词，A是连词，不能接名词，B用于倒装句才表示让步，C应该是in spite of，句意是：尽管他的书呆子气,奇怪的是他却不知道知道戈登·布朗, 第一个在几十年被说成是一个真正的知识英国首相的世界观,。选D