单选题 Banks in Italy fared better during the financial crisis than many of their peers, ______Italian taxpayers the bailouts their counterparts in other countries had to shoulder.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析：本题考查动词(短语)辨析。allow意为“允许，准许；给予；承认”。spare意为“使免遭伤害，使幸免”。depend on意为“依靠，依赖；取决于；视……而定”。prevent意为“阻止，阻碍，阻挠”。分析句子结构可知，their counterparts及其后为省略了关系代词that的定语从句，修饰the bailouts，空格处所填动词需能接双宾语，可排除[A]，[C]和[D]项，故答案为[B]项。