单项选择题
When he won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games, we（）the man as if he were the greatest athlete we had ever seen: a superman, （） , a demigod walking the earth.
A．hymned … a nonpareil B．exasperated … a dabbler C．inveighed … a genius D．lauded … an obscurantist E． apostatized … a commoner
单项选择题 There was an oddly（）inflection to his speech, some said, a sense of merely going through the motions.
