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Shortly after September 11th, President Bush’s father observed that just as Pearl Harbor awakened this country from the notion t
Shortly after September 11th, President Bush’s father observed that just as Pearl Harbor awakened this country from the notion t
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2013-06-10
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Shortly after September 11th, President Bush’s father observed that just as Pearl Harbor awakened this country from the notion that we could somehow avoid the call of duty to defend freedom in Europe and Asia in World War Ⅱ, so, too, should this most recent surprise attack erase the concept in some quarters that America can somehow go it alone in the fight against terrorism or in anything else for that matter.
But America’s allies have begun to wonder whether that is the lesson that has been learned—or whether the Afghanistan campaign’s apparent success shows that unilateralism works just fine. The United States, that argument goes, is so dominant that it can largely afford to go it alone.
It is true that no nation since Rome has loomed so large above the others, but even Rome eventually collapsed. Only a decade ago, the conventional wisdom lamented an America in decline. Bestseller lists featured books that described America’s fall. Japan would soon become "Number One". That view was wrong at the time, and when I wrote "Bound to Lead" in 1989, I, like others, predicted the continuing rise of American power. But the new conventional wisdom that America is invincible is equally dangerous if it leads to a foreign policy that combines unilateralism, arrogance and parochialism.
A number of advocates of "realist" international relations theory have also expressed concern about America’s staying power. Throughout history, coalitions of countries have arisen to balance dominant powers, and the search for traditional shifts in the balance of power and new state challengers is well under way. Some see China as the new enemy; others envisage a Russia-China India coalition as the threat. But even if China maintains high growth rates of 6% while the United States achieves only 2%, it will not equal the United States in income per head until the last half of the century.
Still others see a uniting Europe as a potential federation that will challenge the United States for primacy. But this forecast depends on a high degree of European political unity, and a low state of transatlantic relations. Although realists raise an important point about the leveling of power in the international arena, their quest for new cold-war-style challengers is largely barking up the wrong tree. They are ignoring deeper changes in the distribution and nature of power in the contemporary world. The paradox of American power in the 21st century is that the largest power since Rome cannot achieve its objectives unilaterally in a global information age.
选项
A、to warm of the doom of a terrorist attack.
B、to criticize Americans’ unilaterialism.
C、to call on Americans to defend freedom.
D、to show the primacy of US economy.
答案
B
解析
题干问:"作者以乔治.布什的父亲的话开篇,目的是…"。从文章第一句话的中心可以看出作者以乔治.布什的父亲的话开篇,目的是"批判美国人的单边主义",答案选项表达了此意。而选项"警告恐怖袭击的厄运","号召美国人捍卫自己的自由"以及"显示美国人的经济霸权"皆不符合题意。
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考研英语一
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