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  3. 1. Right now, our eyes are on President Bush. He has surrounded himself with advisors that he’s comfortable with—white, male,

1. Right now, our eyes are on President Bush. He has surrounded himself with advisors that he’s comfortable with—white, male,

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问题 1.    Right now, our eyes are on President Bush. He has surrounded himself with advisors that he’s comfortable with—white, male, establishment. He has one woman in the cabinet, and she’s the Labour Secretary. There is also one black and one Hispanic. So you can see we’ve come a long way. But who’s counting? In Congress, 25 women out of 535. It is up to you, and your generation, to fight for equality for everyone, to make our democracy a true reality.
2.    As for reality, we have a president who says he wants "a kinder, gentler administration," but he won’t say kinder than what, lest he faults his predecessor. He also wants to be an education president, an environment president, but those mountains he has not yet scaled.
3.    As with all presidents, relations with the press are up and down. The president has gone out of his way to woo the press and often invites us to the White House. But lately he has been irritated because of our stories saying that he has a credibility gap and an enormous liking for secrecy. Credibility and accountability are something essential to public service. I saw two presidents go down the drain because they had lost their credibility—Lyndon Johnson, with the Vietnam War; Richard Nixon in the Watergate Scandal. There is no joy in the fall from grace of any president. On the other hand, there is great satisfaction in knowing that no man, not even a president, is above the law.
4.    Too often information that belongs in the public domain is stamped "National Security" and kept form the public eye for years. Too often the public is denied the right to be in the dialogue and too often presented with an accomplished fact.
5.    The invasion (入侵) of Panama, with hundreds of innocent civilians killed, was not one of our shining moments, sending thousands of men into a country to get one man. Coverage of the invasion was well-managed, totally controlled. Very little film of the bombing or the bodies got on your television screen. The pictures taken by the Pentagon have been put into classified files. President Johnson complained that scenes of Vietnam War coming into your living room every night destroyed him politically. So they have learned: out of sight, out of mind.
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答案A
解析 本段通过两个对比，反映了作者对Bush的不满。
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