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  3. 【R1】______There have been many such weeks recently, with nearly as many causes—Romney’s insult to the British during the London

【R1】______There have been many such weeks recently, with nearly as many causes—Romney’s insult to the British during the London

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问题     【R1】______There have been many such weeks recently, with nearly as many causes—Romney’s insult to the British during the London Olympics, Clint Eastwood’s bizarre empty-chair monologue at the Republican convention. Each of these has set off an uproar, and then, just as Romney was preparing to "pivot back to the economy"—BAM! He’s reeling again.
    But grim as these episodes have been for the Romney campaign, they have always been accompanied by the fortifying hope that this time, if they can just keep it together, the dreadful economy will await them at the other end. More than anything, the economy was supposed to smooth his path to the White House.【R2】______No incumbent has won a second term with the unemployment rate above 7.2 percent.
    【R3】______But in a more important sense, this strategy is looking awfully shaky. Despite the disappointing recovery, Obama is leading the race, and by a wider margin than two weeks ago. No question the economy is bad—but that might not be enough to elect Romney.
    The Romney campaign " missed a couple things when they bought into the conventional wisdom that this would be a ballots on Obama’s handling of the economy," says William Kristol, the editor of the conservative Weekly Standard and a former George H. W. Bush administration official, who has been pushing Romney to be more aggressive. "The economy’s not great, but it’s not horrible either. We don’t have 18 percent interest rates and gas lines around the block. And the crash came before Obama. He’s not telling an untruth that he inherited an awful mess. " The numbers, and the public’s attitude toward them, back this up.
    Despite last Friday’s tepid jobs figure—the economy added only 96,000 jobs in August, well below forecasters’ expectations—U. S. economic confidence shot up 11 points last week to its highest level of the year.【R4】______
    To be sure, these are moderate numbers. But they don’t match the awful recession Romney and most Republicans are trying to depict on the campaign trail. Instead, they reflect the economy as it really is: growing at a frustratingly slow pace, but still growing.
    Most worrisome in all this for Romney is that voters no longer regard him as the obviously superior candidate to manage the economy.【R5】______Several other polls show a similar split.
    If Romney has indeed lost this crucial advantage, then it invalidates his theory of the race and buttresses the claims of conservatives like Kristol that he’ll need to do more to win. This could explain why Romney felt compelled to make a jumpy attack on Obama’s handling of Libya—and why the race will be harder for him to win even if he does manage to get his act together.
[A]His strategy from the outset assumed that the fundamentals are so weak that Obama couldn’t win reelection.
[B]Romney helped develop and enact into law the Massachusetts health care reform legislation , the first of its kind in the nation, which provided near-universal health insurance access through state-level subsidies and individual mandates to purchase insurance.
[C]In one sense, Romney’s assumption is likely to be justified: Unemployment will almost certainly be above 8 percent on Election Day, and the economy is expanding at a rate that pales in comparison to the way it was during Reagan’s campaign.
[D]Gallup’s broader measure of overall American satisfaction also hit a three-year high in August of 30 percent.
[E]With one ill-advised political statement about the deadly attack on the U. S. consulate in Libya, Mitt Romney ensured that another week would go by when the focus of the presidential campaign wasn’t on the economy.
[F]Romney raised $56? million during 2011, more than double the amount raised by any of his Republican opponents, and refrained from spending his own money on the campaign.
[G]A Fox Opinion Dynamics poll this week showed an even split between him and Obama on who would be better at "improving the economy and creating jobs. "
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答案A
解析 空格前谈到的话题是罗姆尼的竞选集团认为美国国内低迷的经济将是他们的fortifyinghope，他们相信这是他们借以扫平白宫之路的最佳途径。因此，这里的关键是经济状况将成为他们击败竞选对手奥巴马的有力凭借。空格后提到的同样是罗姆尼竞选集团对本次胜选的把握，同样，也是因为经济低迷而导致失业率上升。那么，不难判断空格处的语句应该和该段的上下文所表达的意思相近，[A]符合此处上下文的衔接，指的是从参选开始，罗姆尼就认为糟糕的经济会使奥巴马无法赢得连任。因此[A]为正确选项。
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