American presidents are elected _______.

In history, there were 5 American presidents were killed.()

e creation of a definitive and unique study of the American Presidency.A history of our nation’s highest office that focuses on not just the men who have held it, but on the events that have shaped it.

This extraordinary history of the Presidency will be unique in another important aspect.It will be recorded in precious metal-----on commemorative medals of silver and gold.

To bring this medallic history into being, our 38th President, Gerald R.Ford, has reexamined the history of the office of the presidency, choosing the 100 events in our nation’s history that were in his view most influential in shaping the nature of that office.Important, exciting, and controversial events that have defined-----and dramatized-----the extent of our President’s power.Turning points in American history that have enabled our Chief Executives-----from George Washington to Gerald Ford himself------to bring this country to the status of the most powerful country in the world.

Each of those events, in turn, will be interpreted by outstanding American artists in the form. of medallic sculpture.And their work will make up a collection of 100 commemorative medals unknown before-----finely detailed medals that will capture the whole fascinating history of the American Presidency.

1.According to the passage, Gerald R.Ford is going to （）

A.write a book on the history of the American Presidency.

B.have the history of the American Presidency represented in a series of monuments and statues.

C.outline the history of the American Presidency in the form. of a series of medals.

D.award some outstanding American artists.

2.It is suggested in the passage that （）

A.the project will be accomplished by Gerald R.Ford alone.

B.Gerald R.Ford will accomplish the task with the help of some well-known artists.

C.Gerald R.Ford will work in cooperation with his advisors to accomplish the task.

D.Gerald R.Ford will do the work with only the help from his secretary.

3.The number of the American Presidents to be included in the study project （）

A.will be no more than a hundred.

B.will be over a hundred.

C.has not been made clear in the passage.

D.will be 38.

4.When the passage was written, Gerald R.Ford （）

A.must have already left office.

B.was probably still on office.

C.was probably nearing the end of his term.

D.was probably running for a re-election.

5.Which of the following is the best title for the passage？

A.History of the American Presidency

B.Gerald R.Ford and his Predecessors

C.The Events That Have Defined the Extent of American Presidents'Powers

D.A History of the American Presidency in Precious Metal

und for a long time. High-minded people have urged it from the beginning of the Republic. The Constitutional Convention turned it down in 1787, and recurrent efforts to put it in the Constitution have regularly failed in the two centuries since. Quite right: it is a terrible idea for a number of reasons among them that it is at war with the philosophy of democracy.

The basic argument for the one-term, six-year presidency is that the quest for reelection is at the heart of our problems with self-government. The desire for reelection, it is claimed, drives Presidents to do things they would not otherwise do. It leads them to make easy promises and to postpone hard decisions. A single six-year term would liberate presidents from the pressures and temptations of politics. Instead of worrying about reelection, they would be free to do only what was best for the country.

The argument is superficially attractive. But when you think about it, it is profoundly antidemocratic in its implications. It assumes Presidents know better than anyone else what is best for the country and that the people are so wrongheaded and ignorant that Presidents should be encouraged to disregard their wishes. It assumes that the less responsive a President is to popular desires and needs, the better President he or she will be. It assumes that the democratic process is the obstacle to wise decisions.

The theory of American democracy is quite the opposite. It is that the give-and-take of the democratic process is the best source of wise decisions. It is that the President's duty is not to ignore and override popular concerns but to acknowledge and heed them. It is "that the President's accountability to the popular will is the best guarantee that he or she will do a good job.

The one-term limitation, as Gouverneur Morris, final draftsman of the Constitution, persuaded the convention, would "destroy the great motive to good behavior," which is the hope of reelection. A President, said Olive Ellsworth, another Founding Father, "should be reelected if his conduct prove worthy of it. And he will be more likely to render himself worthy of it if he be rewardable with it."

The ban on reelection has other perverse consequences. Forbidding a President to run again, Gouverneur Morris said, is "as much as to say that we should give him the benefit of experience, and then deprive ourselves of use of it." George Washington stoutly opposed the idea. "I can see no propriety," he wrote, "in precluding ourselves from the service of any man, who on some great emergency shall be deemed universally most capable of serving the public."

A single six-year term would release Presidents from the test of submitting their records to the voters. It would be an impeachment of the democratic process itself. The Founding Fathers were everlastingly right when they turned down this well-intentioned but ill-considered proposal 200 years ago.

The main idea of the passage is that the United States Presidents should ______

A．have wide political experience

B．serve for a term of less than six years

C．serve for a term of more than six years

D．be allowed to be reelected

2009, they'll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost(教务长)of Yale, who'll become Oxford's vice-chancellor- a position equivalent to university president in America.

Hamilton isn't the only educator crossing the Atlantic. School in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc. have also recently made top-level hires from abroad. Higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays, and like so many business, it's gone global. Yet the talent flow isn't universal. High-level personnel tend to head in only one direction: outward from America.

The chief reason is that American schools don't tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the university's budget, "We didn't do any global consideration", says Patricia Hayes, the board's chair. The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist(活动家) who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents: fund raising. Fund raising is a distinctively American thing, since U.S. schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.

Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding. But government support has failed to keep pace with rising student numbers. The decline in government support has made fund-raising an increasingly necessary ability among administrators, and has hiring committees hungry for Americans.

In the past few years, prominent schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2003, when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost, as its vice-chancellor, the university publicly stressed that in her previous job she had overseen(监督) "a major strengthening of Yale's financial position".

Of course, fund-raising isn't the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind to promote international programs and attract a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.

What is the current trend in higher education discussed in the passage？

A．Institutions worldwide are hiring administrators from the U.S.

B．A lot of political activists are being recruited as administrators.

C．American universities are enrolling more international students.

D．University presidents are paying more attention to fund-raising.

A.George Washington and Thomas Jefferson

B.George Washington and John Adams

C.James Madison and Thomas Jefferson

D.George Washington and Abraham Lincoln

tempt to explain the American English term OK. We don’t know if either story is true, but they are both interesting. The first explanation is based on the fact that President Jackson had very little education. In fact, he had difficulty reading and writing. When important papers came to Jackson, he tried to read them and then had his assistants explain what they said. If he approved of a paper, he would write “all correct” on it. The problem was that he didn’t know how spell, so what he really wrote was “ol korekt”. After a while, he shortened that term to “OK”. The second explanation is based on the place where President Van Buren was born, Kinderhook, New York. Van Buren’s friends organized a club to help him become President. They called the club the Old Kinderhook Club, and anyone who supported Van Buren was called “OK”. The author_______________. A. believes both of the stories

B. doesn’t believe a word of the stories

C. is not sure whether the stories are true

D. is telling the stories just for fun

According to the first story, the term “OK”________________.A.was approved of by President Jackson

B.was the title of some official documents

C.was first used by President Jackson

D.was an old way to spell “all correct”

According to the passage, President Jackson________________.A.couldn’t draw up any documents at all

B.didn’t like to read important papers by himself

C.often had his assistants sign documents for him

D.wasn’t good at reading or spelling

According to the second story, the term “OK”______________.A.was the short way to say “Old Kinderhook Club”

B.meant the place where President Van Buren was born

C.was the name of Van Buren’s club

D.was used to call Van Buren’s supporters in the election

According to the second story, the term “OK” was first used____________.A.by Van Buren

B.in a presidential election

C.to organize the Old Kinderhook Club

D.by the members of the “Old Kinderhook Club”

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fers to______.

A．former presidents

B．senior journalists

C．leading academics

D．chief executives

The heads of which Presidents are carved into Mount Rushmore？

A.Washington, Madison, Theodore Roosevelt, Kennedy

B.Washington, Lincoln, Nixon, Reagan

C.Adams, Taft, Eisenhower, Carter

D.Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln