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  3. Today I am going to tell you something about President Chester Arthur and his civil service reform. Chester Arthur was elected v

Today I am going to tell you something about President Chester Arthur and his civil service reform. Chester Arthur was elected v

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问题     Today I am going to tell you something about President Chester Arthur and his civil service reform. Chester Arthur was elected vice-president of the United States in 1880. In the summer of 1881 President James Garfield was assassinated. A few hours after the President’s death, Chester Arthur took the oath of office. President Arthur had been a successful lawyer and worked in politics for many years, but he had never held an elected office, so in the beginning, some Americans questioned his ability to serve in the White House. President Arthur surprised them; his success in the reform of the civil service system won him much support from the people.
    In his first message to Congress President Arthur proposed a new civil service system that would let ability, not politics, decide who got government jobs. The Republican Party leaders opposed this proposal because the civil service system would stop them form giving federal jobs to their supporters. It would destroy much of their power. These Republican leaders controlled the Congress. They refused to act on the civil service proposal.
    New cases of dishonesty were discovered in government departments. The public began to demand laws to clean up the civil service. In 1882 a new Congress was elected. The new Congress was controlled by the Democratic Party. President Arthur again appealed for civil service reform. This time he got results. The new Congress passed the Civil Service Bill, which required 10 percent of all federal jobs to be filled through competitive examinations. This 10 percent included most workers at the Federal Customs Houses and half the officials in the Post Office Department.
    Chester Arthur’s efforts for honest government won him much support from the people, but he could not win the support of his own Republican Party. He failed to win the Presidential nomination in the Republican Nominating Convention in 1884.
Questions:
What happened in 1882 according to the passage?
选项 A、Chester Arthur became the vice president in the United States.
B、President James Garfield was murdered and Chester Arthur held the office.
C、A lot of new cases of corruption in the government were discovered.
D、Chester Arthur succeeded in civil service reforming with the help of Congress.
答案D
解析 第2题问文章中指出1882年发生了什么。此题为具体细节题。利用查阅式阅读法，我们很快可以在第三段第三句话中找到与提示数字1882相关的信息。仔细阅读一下上下文，我们可以推断出本题的正确答案是D：Arthur在国会的帮助下成功地实施了公务员制度改革。
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