[单项选择]President Clinton received Salman Rushdie probably because
A. Salman Rushdie is a professor at M.I.T.
B. Salman Rushdie is a peace-loving fighter.
C. the US is against the government of Iran.
D. the US is against state-supported murder.

[单项选择]President Clinton received Salman Rushdie probably because
A. Salman Rushdie is a professor at M.I.T.
B. Salman Rushdie is a peace-loving fighter.
C. the US is against the government of Iran.
D. the US is against state-supported murder.

[单项选择]Salman Rushdie is ______ by origin.
A. British
B. American
C. Indian
D. Iranian

[判断题]Shirali probably lived until 168; Tsurba probably lived until age 160.

[单项选择]Clinton thought that his experience in China
A. helped him to get his Master’s degree.
B. helped him to gain a better understanding of China and its people.
C. made his life more interestin

[单项选择]The Clinton Administration announced Friday that ______.
A. US aid programs in 21 countries over the next three years will be halted
B. [IS aid missions in 21 countries over the next three years will be extended
C. the United States government will establish an aid assistant organization
D. the United States is willing to invest more on many developing countries such as Zaire

[单项选择]For eight years the Clinton Administration preached the need for exquisite sensitivity to the Russians. They’d had a rough time. They needed nurturing from their new American friends.
They got it. We fed them loans, knowing that much of the money would disappear corruptly. We turned away from atrocity in Chechnya lest we weaken the new Russian state. But most important, we went weak in the knees on missile defense. The prospect of American antiballistic missiles upset the Russians. And upsetting the Russians was something we simply were not to do.
The Russians cannot keep up with American technology. And they fear that an American missile shield will render obsolete their last remnant of greatness: their monster, nuclear-tipped missiles. So they insist that we adhere to a 1972 treaty signed with the defunct Soviet Union that prohibited either side from developing missile defenses. That the treaty is obsolete-it long predates the world of rogue states racing to acquire missile
A. the Russians understood that they needed nurturing from their new American friends
B. the Russians knew Americans will surely help them
C. upsetting the Russians was something the Americans simply were not to do
D. the Americans shouldn’t worry about upsetting the Russians

[单项选择]The topics Hillary usually talked about in Clinton’s first term exclude:（　）.
A. Human rights
B. Education
C. Economy
D. Environment

[填空题]

President Clinton was born in the little southern town of Hope, Arkansas, on August 19, 1946. But his name was not Bill Clinton. It was William Jefferson Blythe. His mother named him for his father, who had been killed in a car accident a few months earlier. When Bill was four years old, his mother married Roger Clinton who then legally became Bill’s father, Roger Clinton and Bill’s mother had a son, Roger Jr.
Bill Clinton grew up in the town of Hot Spring, Arkansas. He knew he wanted to be involved in politics by the time he was 16 years old. He says he was influenced by President John F. Kennedy and Arkansas Senator William Fulbright.
Bill Clinton studied international affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University in Britain. There, he met other students with whom he has continued life-long friendships. One of them is Robert Reich, who was just nominated to be Secretary of Labor. After