The vote was completed.The chairman announced the result.
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A bill passed by the U. S. Senate(參議院)shows that limiting student visas(簽證)may affect the admission of international students at colleges across the nation. The bill was passed with an unanimous(一致) vote by the senate and now awaits President George W. Bush's approval before becoming law. The Congressional measure puts restrictions(限制)on visas to students from Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan and North Korea countries. The bill does not restrict regular immigrants from those countries. The bill was put forward when it was discovered that one of the hijackers(劫機犯)had cane to the U. S. on a student visa. This man, who was not a national of any of the seven countries on the State Department list, never actually arrived on his college campus.
John Pearson, Director of the International Center: background checks will be carried out for anyone from these countries. My hope is that there won't be a full-out denial of visas, just the background checks. The objective now is to reach a compromise (折中)whereby students from these countries won't be denied entry if they have undergone and passed sufficient background checks. It is unclear what the final process will be for determining visa issuance to students from the seven countries. There won't be a visa denial for students from these countries, the process will just take longer. I don't like this word-tracking system to report data on all foreign students. If the bill becomes law, universities will be asked to report foreign students not showing up for classes to immigration authorities.
John Hennessy, University President: Since several departments accept a number of students from these countries, some of our programs will be significantly weakened if these students can no longer enter the country, The University will offer its support for students already here from these seven countries. We will, of course, try to continue to work with students here to ensure that they will be able to continue their studies.
1.The bill was passed to ________.
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A.refuse international students
B.check the background of international students
C.to turn down students from the seven countries
D.restrict students visas
2.The senate passed the bill with an unanimous vote because of ________.
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A.too many immigrants
B.Sept. 11th attack
C.too many international students
D.political reasons
3.What is the result of the bill?
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A.It will become law.
B.It is going to come into effect.
C.It will be denied.
D.The passage doesn't give us definite answer.
4.John Pearson thinks ________.
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A.all the students from the seven countries should not be given background checks
B.all the students from the seven countries should not be turned away
C.universities should report students not turning up for classes to the government
D.the bill is sure to become law
5.From what John Hennessy said, we can infer ________.
[ ]
A.there are some students from the seven countries in his university
B.they will help those students to continue their studies
C.they will suffer some loss if those students no longer cane
D.students from those countries will be sent back home
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On the 36th day after they had voted, Americans finally learned Wednesday who would be their next president: Governor George W. Bush of Texas.
Vice President Al Gore, his last realistic avenue for legal challenge closed by a U. S. Supreme Court decision late Tuesday, planned to end the contest formally in a televised evening speech of perhaps 10 minutes, advisers said.
They said that Senator Joseph Lieberman, his vice presidential running mate, would first make brief comments. The men would speak from a ceremonial chamber of the Old Executive office Building, to the west of the White House.
The dozens of political workers and lawyers who had helped lead Mr. Gore’s unprecedented fight to claw a come-from-behind electoral victory in the pivotal state of Florida were thanked Wednesday and asked to stand down.
“The vice president has directed the recount committee to suspend activities,” William Daley, the Gore campaign chairman, said in a written statement.
Mr. Gore authorized that statement after meeting with his wife, Tipper, and with top advisers including Mr. Daley.
He was expected to telephone Mr. Bush during the day. The Bush campaign kept a low profile and moved gingerly, as if to leave space for Mr. Gore to contemplate his next steps.
Yet, at the end of a trying and tumultuous process that had focused world attention on sleepless vote counters across Florida, and on courtrooms form Miami to Tallahassee to Atlanta to Washington the Texas governor was set to become the 43d U. S. president.
The news of Mr. Gore’s plans followed the longest and most rancorous dispute over a U. S. presidential election in more than a century, one certain to leave scars in a badly divided country.
It was a bitter ending for Mr. Gore, who had outpolled Mr. Bush nationwide by some 300000 votes, but, without Florida, fell short in the Electoral College by 271votes to 267—the narrowest Electoral College victory since the turbulent election of 1876.
Mr. Gore was said to be distressed by what he and many Democratic activists felt was a partisan decision from the nation’s highest court.
The 5-to –4 decision of the Supreme Court held, in essence, that while a vote recount in Florida could be conducted in legal and constitutional fashion, as Mr. Gore had sought, this could not be done by the Dec. 12 deadline for states to select their presidential electors.
James Baker 3rd, the former secretary of state who represented Mr. Bush in the Florida dispute, issued a short statement after the U. S. high court ruling, saying that the governor was “very pleased and gratified.”
Mr. Bush was planning a nationwide speech aimed at trying to begin to heal the country’s deep, aching and varied divisions. He then was expected to meet with congressional leaders, including Democrats. Dick Cheney, Mr. Bush’s ruing mate, was meeting with congressmen Wednesday in Washington.
When Mr. Bush, who is 54, is sworn into office on Jan.20, he will be only the second son of a president to follow his father to the White House, after John Adams and John Quincy Adams in the early 19th century.
Mr. Gore, in his speech, was expected to thank his supporters, defend his hive-week battle as an effort to ensure, as a matter of principle, that every vote be counted, and call for the nation to join behind the new president. He was described by an aide as “resolved and resigned.”
While some constitutional experts had said they believed states could present electors as late as Dec. 18, the U. S. high court made clear that it saw no such leeway.
The U.S. high court sent back “for revision” to the Florida court its order allowing recounts but made clear that for all practical purposes the election was over.
In its unsigned main opinion, the court declared, “The recount process, in its features here described, is inconsistent with the minimum procedures necessary to protect the fundamental right of each voter.”
That decision, by a court fractured along philosophical lines, left one liberal justice charging that the high court’s proceedings bore a political taint.
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in an angry dissent:” Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the law.”
But at the end of five seemingly endless weeks, during which the physical, legal and constitutional machines of the U. S. election were pressed and sorely tested in ways unseen in more than a century, the system finally produced a result, and one most Americans appeared to be willing at lease provisionally to support.
The Bush team welcomed the news with an outward show of restraint and aplomb. The governor’s hopes had risen and fallen so many times since Election night, and the legal warriors of each side suffered through so many dramatic reversals, that there was little energy left for celebration.
The main idea of this passage is
[A]. Bush’s victory in presidential election bore a political taint.
[B]. The process of the American presidential election.
[C]. The Supreme Court plays a very important part in the presidential election.
[D]. Gore is distressed.
What does the sentence “as if to leave space for Mr. Gore to contemplate his next step” mean
[A]. Bush hopes Gore to join his administration.
[B]. Bush hopes Gore to concede defeat and to support him.
[C]. Bush hopes Gore to congraduate him.
[D]. Bush hopes Gore go on fighting with him.
Why couldn’t Mr. Gore win the presidential election after he outpolled Mr. Bush in the popular vote? Because
[A]. the American president is decided by the supreme court’s decision.
[B]. people can’t directly elect their president.
[C]. the American president is elected by a slate of presidential electors.
[D]. the people of each state support Mr. Bush.
What was the result of the 5—4 decision of the supreme court?
[A]. It was in fact for the vote recount.
[B]. It had nothing to do with the presidential election.
[C]. It decided the fate of the winner.
[D]. It was in essence against the vote recount.
What did the “turbulent election of 1876” imply?
[A]. The process of presidential election of 2000 was the same as that.
[B]. There were great similarities between the two presidential elections (2000 and 1876).
[C]. It was compared to presidential election of 2000.
[D]. It was given an example.
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