[单项选择]The U. S. Constitution requires that the president should be a _______ year-old native born American citizen, living in the States for 14 years.


A. 25
B. 35
C. 45
D. 40

[单项选择]The U. S. Constitution requires that the president should be a ______ -year-old native born American citizen, living in the States for 14 years.


A. 25
B. 35
C. 45
D. 40

[单项选择]People should not take good constitution for granted,for human genetic code is ------- the development of -------.


A. liable to ... anomalies
B. predestined for ... discomfort
C. predisposed to ... disease
D. indicative of ... wholesomeness
E. (E) insalubrious for ... malaise

[单项选择]Which of the following countries is a constitutional monarchy
A. America.
B. Britain.
C. Canada.
D. South Afric

[单项选择]The Amendment to the Constitution which banned slavery is ______.
A. the 11th Amendment
B. the 12th Amendment
C. the 13th Amendment
D. the 14th Amendment

[单项选择]The author regards the writing of the Constitution as a ______.


A. revolution of the magnitude of French revolution
B. miracle created by a collection of typical free man
C. victory of the 18th century
D. defeat for the forces of evil

[单项选择]The American Constitution was finally adopted in 1789 by a narrow margin on the understanding that ______ after the Constitution came into force.
A. Washington would be president of the U.S.
B. the House of Representatives would be elected by each state
C. a Bill of Rights would be amended
D. each state would be equally represented in the Senate

[单项选择]There are means by which the constitution has been ______ over so long a time to the needs of a changing society.


A. altered
B. changed
C. adapted
D. revised

[单项选择]The British constitution is a large extent a product of the historical events described above.
A. within
B. to
C. by
D. at

[单项选择]In the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, it is regulated that ______.


A. the government can entitle state-supported religion to enjoy some special rights
B. the government can not take any action to limit the practice of any religion
C. the United States would have no national religion
D. the government will not intervene in the social or political injustice or disaffection

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Text2 JUST HOW much does the Constitution protect your digital data The Supreme Court is only just coming to grips with that question. On Tuesday,it will consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phonewithout a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest. California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the effects of suspects at the time of their arrest. Even if the justices are tempted, the state argues, it is hard for judges to assess the implications of new and rapidly changing technologies. The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California’s advice. Enough of the implications are discernable, even obvious, that the justices can and should provide updated guidelines to police, lawyers and defendants. They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smartphone — a v
A. search for suspects’ mobile phones without a warrant.
B. check suspects’ phone contents without being authorized.
C. prevent suspects from deleting their phone contents.
D. prohibit suspects from using their mobile phones.

[单项选择]Under the 1996 constitution, all 11 of South Africa’s official languages "must enjoy equality of esteem and be treated equitably". In practice English, the mother tongue of just 8% of the people, increasingly dominates all the others. Its hegemony may even threaten the long-term survival of the country’s African languages, spoken as the mother tongue of 80% of South Africans, despite the government’s repeated promises to promote and protect indigenous languages and culture.
Under apartheid, there were just two official languages, English and Afrikaans, a variant of Dutch with a dash of French, German, Khoisan (spoken by so-called Bushmen and Hottentots), Malay and Portuguese. Pre-colonial African languages were relegated to the black townships and tribal "homelands". Even there, English was often chosen as the medium of education in preference to the inhabitants’ mother tongues. Black South Africans increasingly rejected Afrikaans as the language of the main oppressor; English was
A. ascendancy
B. ownership
C. influence
D. reputation