[单项选择]According to the author, President Bush said that "America is addicted to oil" in his State of the Union Address mainly to ______.
A. (A) refute the criticism by some commentators
B. (B) highlight his Texas roots, advocacy of Arctic drilling, and other associations with the oil industry
C. (C) call for more efforts on pursuing alternative energy sources
D. (D) change the long-standing public impression that he is an oilman who believes in the oil economy

[单项选择]According to the author, George Bush was in favor of the idea _________.
A. of supporting the Social Security system
B. of asking U.S. Congress to end the Social Security system
C. of waiting and see how social security system broke
D. of persuading Democrats to join him

[单项选择]George W. Bush said Saddam Hussein is ______ and must be disarmed immediately.
A. pugnacious
B. proverbial
C. magnanimous
D. malleable

[单项选择]Which countries did President Bush seriously criticize in his Iraq policy address
A. Iran and Lebanon
B. Syria and Pakistan
C. Iran and Syria.

[单项选择]The primary reason that President Bush starts new education reforms is that ______.
A. more children will achieve success in school and in life due to the reforms
B. the greatest changes have taken place in education in a generation
C. these reforms may help him win the next presidential election
D. he has no excuse for failing the children to go to a better school

[单项选择]According to author, the failure of the Seattle meeting is chiefly caused by______.

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Text 4 President Bush takes to the bully pulpit to deliver a stern lecture to America’s business elite. The Justice Dept. stuns the accounting profession by filing a criminal indictment of Arthur Andersen LLP for destroying documents related to its audits of Enron Corp. On Capitol Hill, some congressional panels push on with biased hearings on Enron’s collapse and, now, another busted New Economy star, telecom’s Global Crossing. Lawmakers sign on to new bills aimed at tightening oversight of everything from pensions and accounting to executive pay. To any spectators, it would be easy to conclude that the winds of change are sweeping Corporate America, led by George W. Bush, who ran as "a reformer with result". But far from deconstructing the corporate world brick by brick into something cleaner, sparer, and stronger, Bush aides and many legislators are preparing modest legislative and administrative reforms. Instead of an overhaul, Bushes team i
A. "Crime doesn't pay."
B. "Haste makes waste."
C. "Look before you leap."
D. "Like father, like son."

[单项选择]What does President Bush think of tapping oil in ANWR

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Text 3 President Bush’s re-election already has resulted in more funds for one of the election’s pivotal "moral values" issues--abstinence education. Congress last weekend included more than ＄131 million for abstinence programs in its ＄ 388 billion spending bill. This represents an increase of ＄ 30 million for programs that teach middle- and high-school youths that sexual abstinence until marriage is the best choice. The new funding is far less than the ＄100 million Mr. Bush requested, but it marks a "record level of funding", said leaders of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S. D.. Public debates about the merits of teaching abstinence-until-marriage versus abstinence -plus-contraception are likely to continue: A national evaluation of abstinence-until- marriage programs has been delayed, with a final report not expected until 2006, said a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Bush administ
A. newspaper.
B. report.
C. commentary.
D. book.