Passage Four
President George W. Bush 布什总统 George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. He was sworn into office on January 20, 2001, re-elected on November 2, 2004, and sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2005. Prior to his Presidency, President Bush served for 6 years as the 46th Governor of the State of Texas, where he earned a reputation for bipartisanship and as a compassionate conservative who shaped public policy based on the principles of limited government, personal responsibility, strong families, and local control. President Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University in 1968, and then served as an F-102 fighter pilot A. involving two political parties in his administration B. representing two political parties C. working for the interests of two political parties D. supporting two political parties [填空题]The Bush Administration appears determined to continue the war on drugs that has been actively (47) by all US governments since the Nixon Administration.
Defenders of the war on drugs often throw in an economic (48) . It has been (49) because it curtails (削减) use by raising street prices. It does this because suppliers have to be compensated for the risk of imprisonment and other punishments. It may be true that high prices have (50) the demand for drugs, but the fact remains that most illegal drugs remain popular and (51) , regardless of price. More important, any (52) in the number of addicts and other users has come with an enormous price label. The US alone spends almost $ 40 billion annually waging the drug war, and other countries also spend big sums. The war is fought by seizing and destroying drugs and by apprehending and imprisoning suppliers. A (53) fact is that the US imprisons a larger 我来回答: 提交
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