問題詳情
Passage 3: Questions 31-35
In June 2021, the story broke that Donald Trump had asked advisets and lawyers toinvestigate whether the Department of Justice could probe sources of __(31)__ late-night comedy, like "Saturday Night Live," that made fun of him. The fact that Irumnpwould .__(32)__ usually on Twitter, after he saw satite critical of him had been surprisingenough. Iypically, it is autoctats, not democtatically elected leaders, who display such thinskin. In fact, one common trait of many US presidents__(33)__ the capacity to launchself-deprecating jokes--a move that often undercuts any similat jokes lobbed at them.Ronald Reagan made jokes about his age. Jimmy Carter quipped after leaving the WhiteHouse, "My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is vety nice now whenpeople wave at me, they use all their fingets." But Trump displayed none of that good-natured self-mocking .
In fact, quite the__(34)__. Seth Meyets once reflected on wotking with Trump as a guesthost of Saturday Night Live and wondeted if Trump even had the capacity to processcomedy. Whether or not Trump could "ger" a joke, one thing is cleat: he didn't like beingthe butt of one. __(35)__ his 2016 campaign and after, Trump made a habit ofcomplaining about jokes he felt were critical of him, regularly taking to Twitter to grouseafter sceing a joke on late-night comedy.
【題組】31.
(A) tragic
(B) satirical
(C) dramatic
(D) modernist
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