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| 第1题：The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage.After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question.Answer all questions following the passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. Congressman Hastings has proposed thatCongress should abolish theElectoralCollege system for electing the president and replace it with a system of direct popular election. TheElectoralCollege system is flawed, he argues, because it runs directly counter to the democratic principle that every citizen’s vote should count equally. Because of the winner-take-all system in which the candidate who receives the most popular votes in a state receives all of that state’s electoral votes, the citizens who voted for the losing candidate are effectively disenfranchised from the national election, even if their candidate lost the state by only a handful of votes. Moreover, because each state’s number of electors is the same as its number of members ofCongress, the citizens of small states get a disproportionately larger vote than citizens of more populous states. In the 1988 election, for example, the combined voting-age population of the six least populous states--Alaska,Delaware, NorthDakota, SouthDakota, Vermont, and Wyoming--was 3,119,000. These six states held 21 electoral votes among them. Florida, with a voting-age population of 9,614,000, also had 21 electoral votes.Because of inequities of this nature, there have been four presidential elections in which the candidate who won theElectoralCollege actually lost the popular vote: 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000. Congressman Markham has argued that Hastings’s proposed changes are unnecessary and even dangerous. First of all, he argues, theElectoralCollege system, whatever its flaws, has resulted in a stable democratic government for more than 200 years, which shows that it is doing something right. Second, the winner-take-all system helps create decisive majorities in theElectoralCollege, thereby reducing the problem of disputed elections that we might see in the event of direct popular elections. Third, the current system of allocating electors helps protect the interests of small states, which would be largely neglected in favor of large states if theElectoralCollege were based entirely on population. Protecting these states’ rights is essential to upholding the principle of federalism (in which the states and the federal government maintain distinct powers). When theElectoralCollege system was first formalized by the TwelfthAmendment in 1804, a direct popular vote would have been impossible to implement, and theElectoralCollege was probably the best way to approximate the will of the people.Advances in technology and communication, however, now mean that a direct popular vote would be as simple, if not simpler, to administer than the currentElectoralCollege system.Alternative ways to reform the system would be to do away with the winner-take-all system of state electors, to base the numbers of electors strictly on state populations, or to have a direct popular election but to weight the votes from different states differently in order to preserve the influence of small states. According to the information given in the passage, which of the following statements about Florida and SouthDakota is most accurate A、Florida is a larger state in area than SouthDakotA、 B、SouthDakota has a larger population than FloridA、 C、The ratio of members ofCongress to electors in theElectoralCollege is lower for the state of Florida than it is for SouthDakotA、 D、SouthDakota has more members ofCongress per voting-age citizen than Florida does. E、A、higher percentage of the voting-age population in SouthDakota exercises its constitutional right to vote than is observed among the voting-age population of FloridA、 |
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| 第2题：The square root of 636 is between which set of integers A、24 and 25 B、25 and 26 C、26 and 27 D、27 and 28 E、28 and 29 |
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| 第3题：Becauseofthebusinesscommunity'suncertaintyaboutthePresident'spositioninregardtotheissueofthebudgetdeficit,anunanticipatedriseininterestrateshasoccurred.（） (A)inregardtotheissueofthebudgetdeficit,anunanticipatedriseininterestrateshas (B)onthedeficit,anunanticipatedriseininterestrateshas (C)regardingthebudgetarydeficit,anunanticipatedriseininterestrateshave (D)onthedeficit,anunanticipatedriseininterestrateshave (E)regardingthedeficit,anunanticipatedriseininterestratshave |
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| 第4题：The following data sufficiency problems consist of a question and two statements, labeled (1) and (2), in which certain data are given. You have to decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient for answering the question. Using the data given in the statements plus your knowledge of mathematics and everyday facts (such as the number of days in July or the meaning of counterclockwise), you must indicate whether A、Statement (1)ALONE、is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient. B、Statement (2)ALONE、is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient. C、BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statementALONE、is sufficient. D、EACH statementALONE、is sufficient. Ｅ. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient. If x is an integer, is [*] an integer (1) 18＜x＜54 (2) x is a multiple of 18 |
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| 第5题：The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage.After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question.Answer all questions following the passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. Although hard statistics are difficult to come by, there is substantial anecdotal evidence that use of performance-enhancing drugs, or doping, is rampant in professional sports. Of perhaps greater significance to society are the estimated 1.5 million amateur athletes who use steroids, either to improve their appearance or to emulate the performance of their favorite professional athletes. This chemical epidemic is a pernicious threat to both the nation’s health and our collective sense of "fair play." Nonprescription anabolic steroids have been illegal in the United States since 1991, and most professional sports leagues have banned them since the 1980s. These bans are partly a matter of fairness--a talented athlete trained to the peak of her ability simply cannot compete with an equivalent athlete using steroids--but also based on issues of health.Anabolic androgenic steroids ("anabolic" means that they build tissues; "androgenic" means that they increase masculine traits) have been linked to liver damage, kidney tumors, high blood pressure, balding, and acne. They function by increasing the body’s level of testosterone, the primary male sex hormone. In men, this dramatic increase in testosterone can lead to the shrinking of testicles, infertility, and the development of breasts; in women, it can lead to the growth of facial hair and permanent damage to the reproductive system. Steroids have also been linked to a range of psychological problems, including depression and psychotic rage. The punishments for getting caught using steroids are severe, and the serious health consequences are well documenteD、Despite this, millions of professional and amateur athletes continue to use performance-enhancing drugs. Why is this One clear pattern is that many athletes will do whatever it takes to get an edge on the competition. Since the 1950s, Olympic athletes have played a cat-and-mouse game with OlympicCommittee officials to get away with doping, because the drugs really do work.Athletes who dope are simply stronger and faster than their competitors who play fair. Professional athletes in football and baseball have found that steroids and human growth hormone can give them the edge to score that extra touch-down or home run, and in the modern sports market, those results can translate into millions of dollars in salary. For the millions of less talented athletes in gyms and playing fields across the country, drugs seem like the only way to approach the abilities of their heroes in professional sports. The other clear pattern, unfortunately, is that it has been all too easy for abusers to get away with it. Steroid abuse is often regarded as a "victimless crime." One of the favored ways to trick the testers is to use "designer" steroids. There are thousands of permutations of testosterone, such as THG, that can be produced in a laB、Chemists have discovered that they can create new drugs that produce androgenic effects but do not set off the standard doping tests. Other methods have been to use the steroids but stop a few weeks before testing, to use other chemicals to mask the traces of steroids, or to switch in a "clean" sample of urine at the testing site. Other athletes use steroid precursors, such as androstene-dione, that have androgenic effects similar to those of steroids but are not illegal because they are not technically steroids. The sad fact is that unless the government and professional sports organizations are willing to get tough on the steroid problem, the use of performance-enhancing dugs in sports is not going to enD、 Which of the following can be inferred about a long-distance race in which both athle |
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