00到07年的基础英语真题,及答案

3) The road she has gone through is quite a tough one.

4) According to the rumor, she is the one who is most likely to run for the presidential election on behalf of the Democratic Party.

5) He seemed more probably to become the president after Bill Clinton.

6) …who (i.e. Al Gore) wasted the opportunities that he should have made use of during the period when he was vice president.

7) She has learnt a new way to achieve her aim, which is to start from the bottom and take small actions to avoid the overwhelming oppositions.

8) She has found out what she really wants to be and wants to do.

9) It is the main principle that she adheres to…

10) …She won’t try to teach Laura Bush how to be a good First Lady, or what should a First Lady do, or whatever.

2.

1) The author means that Hillary is to begin a new chapter of her life. Though she is no longer the First Lady, she is elected to the Senate. And that’s her new starting point. As the hearsay goes, she will run for the presidential election in 2004.

2) Despite the overwhelming oppositions against health-care reform, Hillary has never abandoned her goals. By taking small steps, she has succeeded in pushing quietly initiatives on children’s health, adoption and foreign aid, which is her greatest accomplishment as a First Lady.

3) Yes. Though Hillary’s friends insist that Hillary has no plan for presidential election, the author believes that this idea can grow on her after some time and her role as a Senate will facilitate her efforts.

Passage Two

The news that McDonald’s is being sued by Hindus and vegetarians for glazing their french fries with beef extract Not merely because I am a vegetarian myself, but because we have come to the stage when people in America now feel entitled to expect McDonald’s, the cathedral of the beefburger, to serve them something that is 100 percent vegetarian.

What an evolution! When I came to the United States as a graduate student in 1975, to be vegetarian was a crippling handicap. The only food I could eat at the dorm cafeterias (other than breakfast) was salads. There were the occasional tasteless boiled vegetables, meant to accompany the main dish, but to one accustomed to the flavors and seasonings of richly varied Indian cuisine, these were barely edible. , all I could find were pizzas and submarine sandwiches. Great Boston boasted but one Indian restaurant, and as an impecunious student I couldn’t afford to go more than once a semester. At the rare dinner parties I was invited to, the hostesses heaped carrots and peas on my plate－and, if I was lucky, mashed potatoes.

If that wasn’t bad enough, I discovered that most Americans associated vegetarianism with the counterculture, a fad for pot-addled hippies in beads and sandals chanting “om” between crunching on those leaves they weren’t smoking. Merely confessing I was vegetarian meant being seen, at best, as some earnest, otherworldly fringe figure, probably full of dubiously utopian ideas about world peace and the environment. No one believed I didn’t even like animals. I just did not want to chew on their corpses.