[单项选择]Until the constitution is （　）, the power to appoint ministers will remain with the president.
A. corrected
B. amended
C. remedied
D. revised

[简答题] On May 13,1940,Winston Churchill, the newly appointed British Prime Minister, gave his first speech to Parliament. He was preparing the people for a long battle against Nazi aggression, at a time when England’’s survival was still in doubt. ^"... I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.^ ^You ask, what is our policy I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.^ ^You ask, what is our aim I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs—victory in spite of all terrors—for without victory there is no survival.^ ^Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival

[简答题]You are Lily’s teacher. You want to make an appointment with her to discuss about her pa- per. Write her a note to make an appointment with her. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

[单项选择]You can’t see the president（）you’ve made an appointment with him.
A. if
B. unless
C. when
D. except

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The Federal Government
联邦政府
The Constitution
When America broke away from Britain in 1775, she did not adopt a British Constitution. The British have always had an unwritten constitution, whereas every item of the American Constitution is clearly written down and numbered, and can only be changed by a two-thirds majority vote of Congress.
Yet in their different ways, the American and British forms of government did have one thing in common. They were both democratiC．As for American society, it was more democratic than British society, in that it paid less attention to class or wealth.
Political Parties
There are two major political parties in the USA, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The policies of the two parties are not basically opposed to one another. Inside both parties there moderates and right-wringers, though the Democrats still have the reputatio
A. constitutional
B. unconstitutional
C. democratic
D. interested in class and wealth

[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

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The federal entity created by the Constitution is by far the dominant feature of the American governmental system. (1) the system itself is in reality a mosaic, (2) of thousands of smaller units--building blocks which together (3) the whole. There are 50 state governments (4) the government of the District of Columbia, and further down the ladder are still smaller units, (5) counties, cities, towns and villages. This (6) of governmental units is best understood (7) the evolution of the United States. The federal system, it has been seen, was the last step in the (8) process. Prior to its creation, there were the governments of the (9) colonies (later states) and prior to (10) , the governments of counties and smaller units. One of the first tasks (11) by the early English settlers was the creation of governmental units for the tiny (12) they established along the Atlantic coast. Even before the Pilgrims
A. wrote
B. suggested
C. implicated
D. formulated