完形填空 By the time they turn 55, most Hollywood actresses see their careers start to fade. Not【C1】______for Susan Sarandon, who will help kick off the fall movie season with three films. Susan Sarandon is an American actress, known for her social and political activism for a variety of causes. She was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006.
【C2】______of the movies are likely to be blockbusters, but Sarandon chooses her【C3】______more for the stories they tell【C4】______for their commercial potential. "If we're very lucky, these films will【C5】______questions that people will talk about," she says.
She's done her own share of questioning, and arrived at a place in life【C6】______afraid to stand【C7】______her convictions—and then follow【C8】______with action. The eldest of nine children in a New Jersey Roman Catholic family, she stumbled into an acting【C9】______when she attended an audition with her ex-husband, Chris Sarandon. Twenty-five years and five Oscar nominations later, she【C10】______a Best Actress Academy Award for her role as Sister Helen Prejean in 1995's Dead Man Walking, a searing film about capital punishment.
By【C11】______Sarandon was practiced at using her celebrity to【C12】______causes close to her heart.【C13】______. while presenting an award at the 1993 Oscars, she and longtime partner Tim Robbins, an actor and director, took 30 seconds of their podium time to speak on【C14】______of Haitian refugees with AIDS. "At the【C15】______of acting and activism is imagination," Sarandon says. "I've【C16】______had the ability to imagine being in someone else's shoes."
She is a supporter of end-hunger and poverty【C17】______including Heifer International, Madre, and Habitat for Humanity, as【C18】______as the Center for Constitutional Rights. In the aftermath of September 11, she cooked for workers at Ground Zero, did benefit performances, and befriended firefighters and victim's families.
Sarandon is【C19】______hands-on in the role she calls her【C20】______important—mother of three children.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】选项[A]bottom意为“底部”；选项[B]ground意为“大地”；选项[C]basis意为“基础”，常与介词on搭配，构成on the basis of，意为“在……的基础上”；选项[D]root意为“基础，根基”，与介词at搭配，构成at the root of，意为“是……的根本”。根据上下文，只有选项[D]符合题意和搭配。本句意为“想象是表演和实践的根基”。