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Legal training is not a requirement to serve in Congress, although many of the members are, and have been, lawyers. Nor is it ne

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问题     Legal training is not a requirement to serve in Congress, although many of the members are, and have been, lawyers. Nor is it necessary for a House or Senate member to have served in another government post, although many have, and their experience at forging alliances and compromises has been helpful. We no longer have literacy tests for voters, a technique southern state’s used until the 1960s, effectively to disenfranchise African-American voters.
    Yet, it might not be a bad idea to require incoming members of Congress to take a basic test in civics.
    How else, other than an alarming misunderstanding of the basic of American government, to explain the effort of House Republicans to shut the Senate out of the budget process? Their sanctimoniously titled Government Shutdown Prevention Act would do just that, deeming that if the Senate failed to pass a measure to keep the government running amid the current budget dispute, that the House-passed version would become law.
    The idea is bizarre on so many levels—not least because the Senate would actually have to pass the Government Shutdown Prevention Act for the House to assume a dictatorial role in one of the three branches of the world’s greatest democracy. The current fashion of anti-intellectual-ism in politics aside, do the House Republicans not understand the elementary-school fundamentals of how a bill becomes a law?
    The freshman GOP lawmakers are annoyed with the Democratic-controlled Senate, this time for failing to cave in on the dramatic cuts the House Republicans want in the budget. Ask the House Democrats, who approved more than 300 bills in the last Congress that ended up dying in a Senate that failed to pass them or even consider them.
    But the rudimentary lesson of lawmaking are nowhere near as important as the lesson about getting things done in a country of diverse interests. The Tea Party crowd ran campaigns of anger and frustration, blaming Congress for its failure to get balanced budgets and myriad other things. There’s a reason for that, and it’s not because members are stupid or lazy or weak. It’s because this is a country of wildly divergent attitudes and perspectives, reflected in the lawmakers those citizens send to Congress. The Tea Partyers believe they were sent to Washington with a mission, and they likely were. So were Nancy Pelosi and other liberal members whose constituents have drastically different perspectives than those in the Tea Party team’s districts. And their views are no less valid.
    Legislating requires compromise, and compromise is hard, especially during times of economic stress. Being a congressman is a difficult job, forcing them to balance their districts’ needs with the national interest. The new members signed up for this job. They should do it.
What is the reason for Congress failing in getting balanced budgets?
选项 A、They haven’t received legal training before holding the post.
B、They have to consider their different standpoints and interests.
C、They are both lazy and weak in characteristics.
D、They tend to cause the anger and frustration of the minority group.
答案B
解析 事实细节题。由题干关键词getting balanced budgets定位至第六段。该段第三句提到国会无法权衡预算是有原因的，不是因为他们资质愚钝、性格懒惰或者是虚弱无能，而是因为国会中代表公民的律师们的态度截然不同，立场也不尽相同，故[B]符合文意。同理排除[C]；文章第一段提到legal training，第六段提到anger and frustration，但并不是针对国会议员无法权衡预算所说的，[A]和[D]属于捕风捉影，故排除。
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