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David Cameron, 40, the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, just looks handsome. His appeal has propelled the Tories to a con

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问题     David Cameron, 40, the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, just looks handsome. His appeal has propelled the Tories to a consistent lead in opinion polls for the first time since Tony Blair’s 1997 victory. That has infused Britain’s Conservatives with a sensation so unfamiliar, they barely recognize it: optimism. Surprised at this turn of fortune, some are already mythologizing the man behind it.【C1】______Indeed, Cameron and his wife Samantha—the daughter of a baronet—are among London’s most sought-after party guests.
    Actually, Cameron has more in common with a certain British politician than he does with J.F.K. Whether nodding elegantly to recovering drug addicts at a health center north of Aberdeen or charming Scottish journalists on the train journey to Edinburgh, the person whom Cameron resembles more than any other is a young Blair. He has the same brow-furrowing desire not only to understand those with whom he is having conversation with, but to empathize with them; the same rootless accent that in Britain indicates an easy start in life.【C2】______
    Yet the time might be ripe for Cameron. Every second week he makes a raid from what he calls "the Westminster bubble" to some farther-flung area of the kingdom, meeting as many people as possible. "Obviously," he says, "in politics, people want to have a look at you and understand who you are and what makes you tick."
    That’s where the trouble begins. It’s easy enough to locate Cameron’s heart; that’s with his family. He and Samantha have three children under 5 and he says he spends most of his home life "knee-deep in nappies and crying children."【C3】______ Unlike Blair and Brown, Cameron doesn’t show a strong love for the U.S. And in a departure from his predecessors, Cameron rarely invokes the name of the Conservative’s biggest icon: Margaret Thatcher. "To me, Mrs. Thatcher—it’s all a long time in the past," says Cameron. "People are voting at the next election who were born after Mrs. Thatcher left office."
    Many Conservatives of Cameron’s generation believe that their party needs to reclaim the middle ground so brilliantly colonized by Blair and distance itself from the fiercely ideological course it charted during the Thatcher era. "We’re seen as the nasty party," says Barker, a member of Cameron’s campaign team.【C4】______He’s also promoting a doctrine he calls "modern, compassionate Conservatism," which is "about helping those people who can get left behind." In a nod to a nation where opposing global warming has become a semi-religious duty, he claims to be more environmentally friendly than Labour. Cameron’s slogan in local elections last May was "Vote blue, go green."
    That sort of talk has worried some of the party faithful, but Cameron wants his big ideas to appeal across party lines. "You have to do what Bill Clinton did and build a big tent," says Dale. But even Dale would like Cameron to signal to traditional Tories that "the old issues will be treated as seriously as the new ones."【C5】______ So far, though, Cameron has avoided making many explicit policy statements, relying instead on warm and fuzzy ideas like a belief in "social responsibility" that he says will empower business, individuals and local government.
    A. Gordon Brown, is troubled by a more leaden style, a darker visage and a government that is losing popularity, largely because of the mess in Iraq.
    B. To change that image, Cameron has engaged in conspicuously un-Conservative-like behavior, traveling widely and posting a confessional blog at www.webcameron.org.uk.
    C. The wellsprings of his political conviction are harder to trace.
    D. But in Britain’s red-meat political and media landscape, such a warm and fuzzy style is rarely enough. Popular attitudes to politicians are still set by the tabloids.
    E. And like Blair a decade ago—when he was dumping his party’s traditions to appeal to a wider constituency—Cameron inspires suspicion as well as excitement.
    F. Iain Dale, who writes a Conservative blog, speaks of Cameron’s "Kennedyesque glamour." He thinks that Cameron has a lot in common with J. F. Kennedy.
    G. That might mean an open repetition of the Tories’ traditional claim to be the party of low taxation. Or—always a favorite with the right wing—blaming the European Union for Britain’s ills.
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答案F
解析 F提到Kennedyesque glamour，这与前文的mythologizing照应，has a lot in common withJ．F．Kennedy与第二段开头的Cameron has more in common with…than…with J．F．K照应，故选F。
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