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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)

    US President Bush has been having a difficult summer. Recent polls show a considerable decline in public approval of his conduct of the nation’s business, yet in just few weeks voters will decide whether he or Democrat John Kerry is to be the next president. If things are going so badly for Bush, then Kerry must be doing well, right?
    (41)______. His public appearances kindle little enthusiasm. His TV ads sway few viewers. As a result, Kerry supporters tend to be more anti-Bush than they are genuinely pro-Kerry.
    Democratic strategists point out that Kerry has a pattern of coming from behind to win political races. And even though Kerry stirs little excitement, many Americans are quite eager to learn whom he will choose as his running mate. A popular vice presidential candidate could energize his campaign, especially since there is little chance that President. Bush will dump the much-loathed Richard Cheney from the Republican ticket.
    Most observers agree that Kerry is not a particularly strong candidate for the US presidency. He tends to be respected, but he arouses little enthusiasm. (42)______. But then, two weeks ago, the Republicans counterattacked vigorously, end the race is once again wide open.
    The public’s generally positive impression of Senator’s Kerry’s character is based in large part on his record during the war in Vietnam, when he performed heroically as the commander of a "swift boat", a light military craft used by the US Navy to thread the rivers and canals of southern Vietnam. The crew of his old boat are united in their praise of him.
    (43)______. Two weeks ago they began appearing in stingingly negative TV ads aired in crucial states where currently undecided voters will probably determine the outcome of the election. And the ads were effective, drawing independent voters away from Kerry. In the meantime, Kerry’s own crewmen have strongly rejected the new version of events.
    (44)______. Journalists quickly turned up links between the navy veterans and Texas fat cats who had long supplied the Bush family with funds for political campaigns. These rich folks were in turn linked to Karl Rove, Bush’s masterful political strategist—his very own Zhuge Liang.
    (45)______. Cartoonist David Horsey, like many other observers, thinks Karl Rove is up to his old tricks; a similar effort—in this case, untraceable slanderous rumors during a key primary race—undermined popular Republican Senator John McCaine’s campaign for the GOP nomination in 2000. In today’s cartoon Rove is portrayed as the puppeteer controlling Bush’s wealthy supporters in Texas (notice the Texas-style cowboy hat). The hand puppet in turn seems to be manipulating another, smaller puppet that represents the angry swift boat veterans.

A. Nonetheless, thanks to the slow economic recovery, the difficult situation in Iraq and changing perceptions of President Bush’s competence, he seemed to be on the road to a very narrow victory in November.
B. But leadership, you know, isn’t about taking the easy route; it is about making the tough, sometimes unpopular decisions. President Bush has demonstrated that he can make tough decisions, and I personally like the fact that his faith end his values are the foundation of his decisions.
C. Not exactly. Americans outside Massachusetts, which Kerry represents in the Senate, seem to find it hard to relate to the Democratic candidate.
D. While Bush would dearly love to undermine Kerry’s image, he cannot afford to be seen doing so. (His own military record, after all; makes a sorry contrast with Kerry’s.)
E. Are the ads the Bush campaign in action or just the vengeful protest of naval officers whose leadership was questioned in a recent biography of Kerry? It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to make such an ad and buy air time; so many people immediately suspected that wealthy Republicans were behind the effort.
F. However, a group of navy veterans (all present in the same area of Vietnam as Kerry and during the same period, some as senior officers, others as crewmen not on Kerry’s boat but on other, similar craft) have denounced Kerry in a book that came out last month. They allege that he did not deserve the medals for valiant leadership he won in the war.
G. Kerry remains an unknown quantity to most Americans, but better known Democrats are much in the news. Examine the publicity posters in the cartoon. In both upper comers are ads for ex-President Clinton’s lengthy autobiography, My Life.

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答案F
解析 这段谈论克里在越南战争中的表现。本题上句提到：克里当年所在快艇上的官兵众口一词，赞扬他当时的表现。下文又说：两周前，他们开始出现在尖刻的负面电视广告中，这批广告在一些将对大选结果起关键性影响的州播出了，而这些州目前尚未做出决定的选民将很可能决定大选的结果。这些广告奏效了，它们正使独立选民们抛弃克里。与此同时，克里的人激烈地驳斥了这一对当年事件所做出的新演绎。从这些内容可以看出，本题处的内容应该是某一类人对克里在越战中的表现提出了质疑，让克里的正面形象大打折扣。浏览选项，可看到选项F提到了Vietnam(越南)和navy veterans(海军老兵)，这里指出：一群海军老兵在上个月出版的一本书中指责了克里，他们声称，克里不配获得那枚表彰其英勇领导作战的奖章。这部分内容与上下文语义衔接顺畅，逻辑连贯，因此为本题答案。
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