第二篇：The national interest in keeping government secrets will always 36 the public interest in transparency. Just asa leak-proof government breeds abuses, so too can excessive leaks, particularly when involving other countries’ matters,destroy international alliances and mutual trust, making every nation 37 . Instead of asking the media to withholdpublication, the best way for the U.S. government to prevent damaging leaks is to 38 . It’s utterly unbelievable thata staggering 3 million military personnel had access to the information contained in the first round of documents fromWikiLeaks’ release of more than 250,000 U.S. embassy cables. 39 is that a single person, Bradley Manning, a23-year-old Army intelligence analyst, boasted in an online chat that he had downloaded an astonishingly large numberof 40 documents, which should never have been obtained in any forms by any persona less than the Secretary ofDefense.
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(A) necessitate
(B) sustain
(C) coincide with
(D) conflict with