The six states he won in 1988 are the same states in which he has yet to pull ahead of his ().
A.achievement
B.opposition
C.opponent
D.proposal
C、opponent
A.achievement
B.opposition
C.opponent
D.proposal
C、opponent
The basic argument for the one-term, six-year presidency is that the quest for reelection is at the heart of our problems with self-government. The desire for reelection, it is claimed, drives Presidents to do things they would not otherwise do. It leads them to make easy promises and to postpone hard decisions. A single six-year term would liberate presidents from the pressures and temptations of politics. Instead of worrying about reelection, they would be free to do only what was best for the country.
The argument is superficially attractive. But when you think about it, it is profoundly antidemocratic in its implications. It assumes Presidents know better than anyone else what is best for the country and that the people are so wrongheaded and ignorant that Presidents should be encouraged to disregard their wishes. It assumes that the less responsive a President is to popular desires and needs, the better President he or she will be. It assumes that the democratic process is the obstacle to wise decisions.
The theory of American democracy is quite the opposite. It is that the give-and-take of the democratic process is the best source of wise decisions. It is that the President's duty is not to ignore and override popular concerns but to acknowledge and heed them. It is "that the President's accountability to the popular will is the best guarantee that he or she will do a good job.
The one-term limitation, as Gouverneur Morris, final draftsman of the Constitution, persuaded the convention, would "destroy the great motive to good behavior," which is the hope of reelection. A President, said Olive Ellsworth, another Founding Father, "should be reelected if his conduct prove worthy of it. And he will be more likely to render himself worthy of it if he be rewardable with it."
The ban on reelection has other perverse consequences. Forbidding a President to run again, Gouverneur Morris said, is "as much as to say that we should give him the benefit of experience, and then deprive ourselves of use of it." George Washington stoutly opposed the idea. "I can see no propriety," he wrote, "in precluding ourselves from the service of any man, who on some great emergency shall be deemed universally most capable of serving the public."
A single six-year term would release Presidents from the test of submitting their records to the voters. It would be an impeachment of the democratic process itself. The Founding Fathers were everlastingly right when they turned down this well-intentioned but ill-considered proposal 200 years ago.
The main idea of the passage is that the United States Presidents should ______
A.have wide political experience
B.serve for a term of less than six years
C.serve for a term of more than six years
D.be allowed to be reelected
Many months after, four thousand miles away, a group of United States Marines found a little Chinese girl. No one could tell how she had got there. She refused to talk or give her name. The captain who spoke Chinese named her Patsy Lee because he thought she looked like a white plum blossom.
When the New York Times told about the finding of "Patsy Lee", Mrs. Li's sister saw the news and wrote to her sister about it. Could Patsy Lee be the lost child Patsy Li? The mother made the long voyage to find out. The little "white plum blossom" was indeed her own Pasty Li.
According to the story, what does "Patsy Li" mean?
A.White apple blossom.
B.White peach blossom.
C.White pear blossom.
D.White plum blossom.
(56)
A.hot
B.warm
C.cool
D.heated
He's not ______ to learn German in six months.
A.capable
B.can
C.enable
D.able
He used to get up at six in the morning, ______?
A.used he
B.did he
C.didn'the
D.should he
A.would be
B.must have been
C.has been
D.were
One could well imagine a dictionary entry that reads."Honda,n. automobile.cf. Af fordable,reliable,friendly. "Or in the words of the prospective car buyers portrayed in its U.S. television eommercials. "l&39;II take it. "Buyers all over the world did. pushing sales of Honda cars and Honda motorcyeles into the millions. Behind those definitions,though,there was a flesh-and-blood Honda. self-made giant of Japanese industry who hated boardrooms and preferred getting grease on his hands as he tinkered alongside his engineers with the little ears that would zoom across the Pacific and conquer America. When Soichiro Honda,84,died last week of liver failure,the company he founded in 1948 was ranked fourth in Japan and poised to displace Chrysler as the third largest producer of passenger cars in the U.S. Honda was fated to build cars, The son of a village black-smith.he was no more than six when, breathless and memorized. be ran through the streets of his native town,near Hamamatsu,chasing a Ford Model T. By 18 he bad built his first auto,powered by a discarded American airplane engine. The after months of the war provided him with priceless opportunities,especially after U.S. occupation forces purged the upper echelons(梯队) of Japanese industry and government ,opening the doors for outsiders, Honda decided to manufacture affordable motorcyeles that would allow the Japanese to move cheaply farms to cities to buy ,sell or work. Honda refused to obey the Ministry of lnternational Trade and Industry when it ordered him to stick to motoreycies. Japan,it said,did not need more than a few car manufacturers. Honda ignored them. He also helped establish the company policy of setting up factories in the U. S. when Japanese competitors such as Toyota saw no wisdom inbuilding abroad.
According to the second paragraph which one of the folowing best describes Mr. Honda?
A.Mr. Honda was an imaginary hero in Japancse Mythology
B.Mr. Honda was a diligent person who always seated himself in his office reading a great number of reports
C.Mr. Honda was a severe person who always wear clean suit and white gloves
D.Mr. Honda loved to fiddle with the little cars in the workshop accompanied by engineers.
The company Honda founded was all set to____A.become the third largest car prodocer in the U. S
B.remove Chrysler from its present position
C.put Chrysler out of business
D.push sales in the United States
Honda was fated to build cars , because____A.he was the son of a village black-smith
B.Honda decided to manufacture affordable motorcycles that would allow the Japanese to move cheaply from farms to cities to buy,sell or work
C.Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan said that Japan did not need more than a few car manufacturers
D.he ran chasinga Ford Model T when he was 6,and by 18 he had built his first auto. By grasping opportunities he began to manufacture motorcycles
Which of the following factors contributes to making Honda a giant automaker? A Education. aoble origin and inheritage
A.Education. aoble origin and inheritage
B.Tenacity determination and timing
C.Luck.cunnings and eruelty
D.Poverty ,inferiority and pitiablity
Which of the following proposals did the Ordinance of 1784 incorporate?
A.New states should be admitted to the Union in numbers equal to the older states.
B.The Union should make the western region into tributary states.
C.New states should share the same rights in the Union as the original states.
D.The great western region should be divided into twelve states.