在职申硕英语考试

【单选题】TheEnglish word "veto" means "I will not permit". It is a way for one member of a group or government to (61) action by other members.
For example, the United Nations SecurityCouncil (62) five permanent members, the United States,China,Britain, France and RussiA、 (63) can use the veto to block action by the whole group.Britain and France did this in 1956. They vetoed a resolution (64) Israel to withdraw its forces fromEgyptian territory.
The most (65) use of the veto is by an executive over the legislative in a government with a president. The United StatesConstitution (66) such a veto. The (67) also says a president’s veto can be changed by a second vote ofCongress. This is called overriding the president’s veto. For a bill to become law, (68) of the members of both houses ofCongress (69) vote to override the president’s veto. ThroughoutAmerican history, presidents (70) more than 2 500 congressional bills.Congress has been able to override the president’s veto (71) 104 times. Presidents in the late 1800s and early 1700s did not use the veto frequently.
In the 1940s,President Franklin Roosevelt vetoed more than 600 bills.But he was president for 12 years, much longer than anyone else. More recently, President Ronald Reagan vetoed (72) in his eight years in office.And GeorgeBush vetoed 44 bills in four years.
Today,Congress is approving bills designed to (73) the size and cost of the federal government. PresidentClinton does not (74) all the congressional plans. He has different ideas about (75) parts of government should be cut and by how much. He already vetoed at least one of these bills.
A．provide for
B．provided for
C．providing for
D．provides for

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
本题考语法。选择项提供了动词的四种形式。在甄别正确答案时，应考虑使用谓语或非谓语动词，即选择A或D，还是选择B或C；现在时还是过去时，即：选择A或C还是B，以及单数(即选择项D)或复数动词(即选择项A)几个方面。首先，显然应选择谓语动词形式，即排除现在分词选项C．providing for。然后排除过去时选项B．provided for，因为文章所谈论的是美国现行宪法。最后，由于主语“美国宪法”是单数，故再排除A．provide for，正确答案为D．provides for。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>