With a lot of difficult problems the newly-elected president is going to have a hard tim

问题补充：

With a lot of difficult problems , the newly-elected president is going to have a hard time.

A. settled

B. settling

C. to settle

D. to be settled

答案：

A. settled

B. settling

(答案→)C. to settle

D. to be settled

解析：

试题分析: 句意：有很多难题要解决，新当选的总统正在度过一段艰难的时间。此处考查“with+宾语+补语”结构，补语可以有不定式，现在分词和过去分词形式，不定式表示将来，现在分词表示主动，进行，而过去分词表示被动，完成；从后句内容可知问题还没有解决，所以选C。