英美报刊选读考到的课本问题及答案
Lesson Eleven
Is America’s new declinism for real
1. What is the difference between the latest global trends report and the one issued four years ago?
The latest report forees world in which the US plays a prominent role in global events，but
the US is en as one among many global actors". The report issued four years ago had projected "continuing US dominance".
2. What does "new declinism" mean?
It means that Americans，especially the
intellectuals，think that America is in decline. They have lost the aggressive confidence of the Bush years and the "unipolar moment". It is new becau there were times in US history when people had similar thoughts.
3. What are the reasons of the new declinism?
There are three reasons：First，the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made it clear that US military supremacy does not automatically translate into political victory. Second，the ri of China and India suggests that America’s days as the world’s largest economy are numbered. Third, the financial crisis has fed the notion that the US is living beyond its means and that something is badly wrong with the American model.
4. What does William Wohlforth of Dartmouth College think of the new declinism?
He pointed out that America may recover from the new declinism just like before and there may be a resurgence of American confidence.
5. Why does the writer think that the new declinism may be more soundly bad than the
previous ones?
Becau he thinks that China may po more challenge to the US than the Soviet Union and Japan since it has a large size and a record of sustained and dynamic economic growth..
6. What do you think of America’s decline? And China’s ri?
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Lesson Fifteen
Libby Defen Portrays Client as a Scapegoat
1. For what was I. Lewis Libby charged?
Mr. Libby was charged for perjury and obstruction of justice becau he was considered to have lied to investigators. He was charged with five felony accounts of lying to the grand jury and to officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who were investigating th
e leak of Ms. Wilson's name to Mr. Novak.
2. How did Libby defend himlf on the charges of perjury and obstruction of justice?
Mr. Libby said that he believed he first learned about Ms. Wilson in a conversation with Tim Rusrt of NBC. He also told the grand jury that he had been taken aback by Mr. Rusrt’s information. He had testified that he did not discuss Ms. Wilson’s identity with Judith Miller，a former reporter for The Times,or with Matthew Cooper of Time magazine.
3. How did Mr. Wells defend Mr. Libby?
Trying to prent the ca as hopelessly complicated as possible, Mr. Wells spoke for nearly two and a half hours to leave the jurors in doubt about the validity of the charges. And he asrted that Mr. Libby had become enmeshed in legal difficulty becau of White Hou efforts to protec荷的诗句
t Mr. Rove.
4. Why did the White Hou intend to protect Mr. Rove?
Becau Mr. Rove was Mr. Bush’s right-hand man and "was most responsible for eing the Republican Party stayed in office.”And he had a major role in guiding Mr. Bush's re-election campaign.
5. Do you think the Bush administration had distorted intelligence about Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium? Why or why not?
Yes，I think so. Becau the weapons of mass destruction have not been found up to now.
6. How do you understand Mr. Cheney’s words that "Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the guy who 演讲稿模板
was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder becau of the incompetence of others?"
Mr. Cheney means that he is not going to sacrifice Libby just for the purpo of protecting Mr. Rove.
Mr. Cheney means that he is not going to
sacrifice Libby just for the purpo of
protecting Mr. Rove.
Lesson Eighteen
A Race We Can All Win
1. What are the different views between the author and some other American politicians on China? Why does he think so?
Many American politicians have played tovoters’ economic incurities by scapegoating China，while the author believes that China is not a threat to America，but an incredible opportunity. Since the author has worked 35 years in the private ctor, and has run the nation's largest city for 6 years.
2. What does the author e behind the growing Chine economy?
Although China emerges as an economic dynamo，the author has also en the frailties
underpinning its system. The increasingly congested roads and polluted air choke its economy and its people. The growth of cities is also exposing other fundamental long-term economic challenges，for instance裴多菲的诗
，the education system is simply not producing enough skilled workers--- engineers，doctors，scientists and mangers. At the same time，health-care costs are skyrocketing.
