单选题
"The foreign teachers wondered what we Chinese teachers do in political meetings and I told them that we had to go through the______of lengthy formalities. "
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析：A项rigmarole意为“冗长的废话，胡言乱语”，如I’ve never heard such a rigmarole(我从来没听过像这样的长篇废话)。根据空格处的意思“我们得经历冗长的例行讲话”，故选A。B项significance“意义，重要性”；C项commiseration“同情”；D项implication“牵连，含义，暗示”，均不符合题意。