单选题 Last year, some poor people had hardly ______ the severe winter.

【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点] 词义辨析。
[解析] remain保留，剩余；live生活；endure忍耐(受)；survive继续生活或存在(后可直接跟宾语)。根据句意，应选D。