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2003年硕士研究生入学考试基础英语试题

I ．Reading Comprehension

This section contains two passages. Read each passage and then answer the questions given at the end of each passage, using the answer sheet provided.

Passage One flanked by volunteers and politicians’ wives, Clinton celebrated the role of women in the Northern audience to keep pushing for a common-sense end to the ages-old conflict. On her last official overseas trip as First Lady, Clinton fondly recalled not only earlier visits to Belfast, but her travel around the globe. Now she’d come to say farewell and, as she put it, to “end one chapter in my As the Clintons prepare to leave the White House, Bill isn’t the only one thinking about a legacy. Hillary has racked up a long list of First Lady “firsts”: first baby boomer, first professional woman, first to head a major government task force, first to testify before a grand jury. “Hillary Clinton is, in my estimation, the single most accomplished First Lady in American history,” say the U. S Senate and a staggering new book deal prove that Clinton has not only survived－she’s Despite all her years on the national stage, much about Hillary Clinton remains a mystery－which may explain why Simon & Schuster last week bid an almost unprecedented $ 8 million to publish her memoirs. But friends caution that while Clinton will touch on the obvious travails of her champion fund-raiser－both for Democrats who love her and for Republicans who love to hate her －and could become an eloquent voice of opposition against the new Bush White House. Hillary has promised to serve out her six-year Senate term, a vow that still could leave her open for a presidential bid in2008. Still, friends insist she have no such plans.

But in a few years, with a solid Senate record on key committees like finance or appropriations, people thought she was overreaching. Yet while Clinton was wounded after the health-fiasco, she never abandoned her goals, quietly pushing initiatives on children’s health, adoption and foreign aid, among others.

that every woman gets to make choices of her own－to work, to run for office, to stand by her man. So when Clinton sits down with Laura Bush, 1