公共英语考试

【单选题】
A、new study from theCenter for Information and Research onCivic Learning andEngagementCIRCLE、at Tufts University shows that today’s youth vote in larger numbers than previous generations, and a 2008 study from theCenter forAmerican Progress adds that increasing numbers of young voters and activists support traditionally liberal causes.But there’s no easy way to see what those figures mean in real life.During the presidential campaign,Barack Obama assembled a racially and ideologically diverse coalition with his message of hope and change; as the reality of life under a new administration settles in, some of those supporters might become disillusione
D、As the nation moves further into the Obama presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his agenda, or will they gradually drift away
The writers of Generation O (short for Obama), a new Newsweek blog that seeks to chronicle the lives of a group of young Obama supporters, want to answer that question. For the next three months, Michelle Kremer and 11 other Obama supporters, ages 19 to 34, will blog about life across mainstreamAmerica, with one twist: by tying all of their ideas and experiences to the new president and his administration, the bloggers will try to start a conversation about what it means to be young and politically active inAmerica today. MalenaAmusa, a 2t-year-old writer and dancer from St. Louis sees the project as a way to preserve history as it happens.Amusa, who is traveling to India this spring to finish a book, then to Senegal to teachEnglish, has ongoing conversations with her friends about how the Obama presidency has changed their daily lives and hopes to put some of those ideas, along with her global perspective, into her posts. She’s excited because, as she puts it, "I don’t have to wait (until) 15 years from now" to make sense of the worl
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Henry Flores, a political-science professor at St. Mary’s University, credits this younger generation’s political strength to their embrace of technology. "(The Internet) exposes them to more thinking," he says, "and groups that are like-minded in different parts of the country start to come together. " That’s exactly what the Generation O bloggers are hoping to do. The result could be a group of young people that, like their boomer parents, grows up with a strong sense of purpose and sheds the image of apathy they’ve inherited from Generation X (20世纪60年代后期和70年代出生的美国人). It’s no small challenge for a blog run by a group of ordinary — if ambitious — young people, but the members of Generation O are up to the task.
what accounts for the younger generation’s political strength according to Professor Henry Flores

A、Their embrace of radical ideas.
B、Their desire to changeAmeric
A、
C、Their utilization of the Internet.
D、Their strong sense of responsibility.
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
分析推理题。文章最后一段第一句指出：Henry Flores...credits this younger generation’s political strength to their embrace of technology (Henry Flores将这种年轻一代的政治力量归因于他们对技术的利用)。至于“their embrace of technology”是什么，作者紧跟着说明：(The Internet) exposes them to more thinking...(互联网使他们接触到更多的思想，也使国内不同地区有着同样想法的人开始走到一起)，所以，“their embrace of technology”指的就是对互联网的利用，故本题选[C]。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>