A.it certainly rattled some windows B.to make these loans C.wrote a warning memo D.began to A. "hot money" owners【T13】______ pull their funds out of Continental B. but【T14】______ C. one Continental officer saw danger signs and【T15】______ to her superiors D. To obtain the funds it needed【T16】______ The stability of the U. S. banking system is maintained by means of supervision and regulation, inspections, deposit insurance, and loans to troubled banks. For over 50 years, these precautions have prevented banking panics. However, there have been some close calls. The collapse of Continental Illinois Bank & Trusted Company of Chicago in 1984 did not bring down the banking system,【T17】______. In the late 1970s, Continental soared to a leadership position among Midwestern banks. Parts of its growth strategy were risky, however. It made many loans in the energy field, including $ 1 billion that it took over from Penn Square Bank of Oklahoma City. 【T18】______ , Continental relied heavily on short term borrowing from other banks and large 30-day certificates of deposit— "hot money", in banking jargon. At least【T19】______, but the memo went unheeded. Although the Comptroller of the Currency inspected Continental on a regular basis, it failed to see how serious its problems were going to be. Penn Square Bank was closed by regulators in July 1982. When energy prices began to slip, most of the $ 1 billion in loans that Continental had taken over from the smaller banks turned out to be bad Other loans to troubled companies such Chrysler, International Harvester, and Braniff looked questionable. Seeing these problem,【T20】______ .

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：空格前一句的意思为：该银行在能源领域发放了很多贷款，包括从Oklahoma市的Penn Square银行接管10亿美元。空格所在句的意思应为：为了获得放贷所需的资金，大陆银行过度依赖从其他银行借来的短期贷款和30天大额定期存单——用银行业的行话称为“热钱”。所以，D项符合题意。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：空格前一句的意思为：除此之外，提供给Chrysler、International Harvester和Baniff等经营不善的公司的贷款似乎也是问题重重。空格所在句的意思应为：鉴于这些问题，“热钱”的持有者开始从大陆银行抽回资金。所以，A项符合题意。