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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was named Person of the Year by Time m

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问题     Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was named Person of the Year by Time magazine on Wednesday,【S1】______him a helping hand as he tries to ward off【S2】______that might weaken the Fed’s independence.
    The selection puts the mild-mannered Bernanke, a former professor, in the company of U. S. President Barack Obama, Pope John Paul II and Russian President Vladimir Putin, among other【S3】______world figures the magazine has picked in past years.
    The Senate is considering Bernanke’s【S4】______to a second term to head the Fed—the U. S. central bank—and while he is expected to win【S5】______, criticism of the Fed among the public and members of Congress is at its highest in decades.
    The Fed worries that congressional second-guessing of its policy【S6】______would compromise its fiercely-guarded independence.
    One poll by Rasmussen Reports showed public support for Bernanke’s nomination at a scant 21 percent, with 41 percent【S7】______opposition, but he continues to enjoy support on Wall Street and among many lawmakers.
    " Ben is the person that【S8】______us from going over the edge of the danger and into the abyss(深渊)," said former Fed Governor Lyle Gramley, now a senior economic adviser at Soleil Securities.
    But Republican Senator Jim Bunning, one of the Fed’s sharpest critics, said Time’s pick was a reward for "failure".
    "Many of the problems our markets are facing right now could have been【S9】______had Chairman Bernanke not been asleep at the switch(玩忽职守，错过机会)," Bunning said in a statement.
    Time credited the 56-year-old Bernanke with【S10】______leadership that helped set the U. S. economy on a path to recovery even as he and other policy makers remain concerned about a high unemployment rate of 10 percent.
A)avoided I)nomination
B)confirmation J)policies
C)creative K)prominent
D)cute L)promotion
E)decisions M)proposals
F)denied N)putting
G)giving O)stating
H)kept [br] 【S2】
选项
答案 M
解析 介词off后缺少一个名词。根据原文可知，时值伯南克试图限制可能会削弱美联储独立性提议的当口，当选《时代》年度人物无疑将助其一臂之力。proposals“提议”与题意相符。ward off意为“避开，挡住”，伯南克要“挡住”的目标应该是还没有确定的事，故排除policies“政策”。
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