One of the political issues that is heard a lot about in the States lately is campaign（競選）finance reform（改革）. The people who are  36  for reform usually want the  37  to pay for campaigns and/or limit the amount of money that candidates（候選人）and their  38  can spend.

One reason that reform is called for is that it costs so much to  39  for political office. Candidates have to spend a great deal of time and effort  40  money. The incumbents (those already in office) have less time to do chief jobs since they must  41  so many money raising events.

Another  42  is the fear that candidates will be owned or  43  by the “special interest groups” that give money to their campaigns. Sometimes this certainly seems to be the  44 .

On the  45  side are those who say that it doesn’t mean it’s really  46  just because you call something “reform”. They argue that the right to freedom of speech is  47  if the government can limit anyone’s ability to get his or her message out to the people.

If one person or a group of people want to tell the  48  what they think about an issue or candidate, they have to buy  49  on TV, radio, and in newspapers and magazines. They might want to put up advertisements along highways and on websites. All this costs a lot of  50 .

Those against laws that control or limit spending say that you don’t really have freedom of  51  or freedom of the press if you can’t get your message out. They say the government should never be able to control  52  discussions. They believe that this is most important when the voters are about to make  53 .

What do you think about this  54 ? Listen to what the candidates for national office have to say. Which candidates  55  the most sense to you?

36．A．waiting                   B．calling                    C．standing                  D．preparing

37．A．government            B．president                 C．candidates               D．citizens

38．A．leaders                   B．bosses                     C．supporters               D．states

39．A．pay                        B．compete                  C．wait                       D．work

40．A．raising                    B．earning                   C．giving                    D．getting

41．A．notice                     B．report                     C．guard                            D．a(chǎn)ttend

42．A．event                      B．cost                        C．reason                    D．office

43．A．encouraged             B．forced                    C．controlled               D．ordered

44．A．joke                       B．purpose                  C．case                        D．example

45．A．other                      B．same                      C．a(chǎn)nother                   D．different

46．A．worse                     B．better                            C．easier                            D．harder

47．A．meaningless            B．unimportant            C．unnecessary             D．impossible

48．A．reporters                 B．truth                       C．story                      D．public

49．A．time                       B．copies                     C．rights                            D．a(chǎn)dvertising

50．A．energy                    B．effort                            C．time                       D．money

51．A．a(chǎn)rgument                B．opinion                   C．speech                    D．election

52．A．common                 B．political                  C．general                   D．special

53．A．profit                            B．trouble                   C．plans                      D．decisions

54．A．quarrel                   B．problem                  C．issue                       D．a(chǎn)ffair

55．A．find                       B．make                      C．create                     D．produce

36---55     BACBA   DCCCA   BADDD   CBDCB     


解析:

36 B

 根據(jù)第二段第一句話可得知答案。call for號召。

37 A

 根據(jù)下文支持改革和持反對意見的人的觀點及其原因可知答案。

38 C

 根據(jù)常識可知，西方國家每次競選，候選人及其支持者都會花大量的錢進行宣傳。

39 B

 候選人及其支持者花費如此多的錢就是為了競爭政府的某個職位。

40 A

 raise money募集資金。競選者要競選成功，得需要大量的資金用于宣傳。因此競選之前要想方設法募集資金。根據(jù)后一句中的money raising events也可得知答案。

41 D

 候選人在募集資金的過程中會出現(xiàn)很多問題，出現(xiàn)問題政府工作人員就要進行協(xié)調，他們可能因為解決這些問題而無暇顧及自己的主要工作。attend此處為負責，處理。

42 C

 上文提到了改革的一個原因，本段是解釋另一個原因。

43 C

 own與control同義，控制。

44 C

 case情況。本段解釋的是一些人主張改革的原因，是擔心候選人因為錢而受到某個組織的控制。他們之所以擔心是因為有時候情況就是這樣。

45 A

 上文所列舉的是一些人主張改革的原因。本句起承上啟下的作用，引出站在另一方立場上的人的觀點及其原因。

46 B

 本句句意為：你稱呼某些東西為改革，而改革未必就是好的。

47 A

 如果政府能限制人對外界進行宣傳，那么人的言論自由權就變的名存實亡，毫無意義了。

48 D

 聯(lián)系上文及常識可知，如果要想競選成功，候選人或某個組織必須對公眾進行宣傳，獲得群眾的支持和選票。

49 D

 結合句意及常識可知，要想宣傳自己的觀點或看法，必須在媒體上大肆宣傳，而宣傳的主要途徑就是廣告。

50 D

 要想在媒體上宣傳，必須做大量的廣告，而廣告勢必需要大量的資金做后盾。

51 C

 根據(jù)第四段最后一句話可得知答案。

52 B

 本篇介紹的是關于候選人所用獎金的改革問題，都是關于政治方面的問題。反對人士認為政府不能限制人的言論自由，不能限制人們在政治方面的談論自由。

53 D

 本句與上一句為遞進關系。意為：政府更不能干涉人們決定贊成哪位候選人。

54 C

 本句為本段的總結句，與第一段首句相對應。

55 B

 make sense有意義，有道理。

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