(单选题)

What does the underlined word "skimpy" in the third paragraph mean? ( )

A.old

B.adequate

C.crafty

D.Insufficient

参考答案：D

参考解析：

根据关键词可以定位至文章第三段第一句话，One way to give yourself nightmares is to imagine that nothing had changed at the banks and they were still run with the skimpy capital levels they had at the end of 2008.根据前文关键词nightmares，nothing以及并列关联词and可判断出来，前后应该是意义一致，因此这个词是属于贬义词，四个选项中只有D是贬义词。AC项都是中性词，B项是褒义词。故本题正确答案选D。

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