【文章內容簡介】 that they can’ t find time for the midterm elections. In the 1998 midterms, coverage was down by more than half over 1994. And it’ s falling again— a parison of news coverage in 10 states shows the midterm election is getting 13 percent less coverage this year than in 1998. When Journalists deign to cover elections, they magnify the very things they rail against. Candidates are ignored or portrayed as boring if they run issuebased campaigns. Attack sound bites get airtime。 positive statements land on the cuttingroom floor. 43) ____________ _________________________________. It‘s not surprising voters are disenchanted with campaigns. During the 2020 election, as part of the Vanishing Voter Project at Harvard University‘s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, we interviewed 100,000 Americans to discover why they‘re disengaging from elections. 44) _________________________________________________________. Officials unfailingly urge citizens“ to do your duty and vote.” Yet, these officials embrace policies that make it harder to do that. 45) ____________________________________. So look for a small turnout Tuesday, but don’ t ask citizens to look in the mirror. Some or them have cast their eye on what’ s going on in candidate— land media— land and are asking why they should be bit players in that artifice. [A] Electoral petition is key to democracy, and America’ s voters aren’ t getting the full benefit of that. Only a couple of dozen of this year’ s 435 US House races are petitive. Two years ago, percent of incumbents won, typically by margins of 70 percent or more. 新增題型全突破 7/73 [B] True leadership has bee so rare that politicians may no longer even dream of stepping forward to say something other than what polls tell them is safe. Tuesday‘s election will surely pass without much of a debate on the momentous foreign and domestic issues facing the nation. [C] Amid the uproar over Florida‘s ballot irregularities, no mentator has seen fit to ask why polls there close at 7 . Florida is one of 26 states that close their polls before 8 . Unsurprisingly, turnout in these states is several percentage points below that of states where polls are open until 8 . or later. [D] As for trivial issues, why did candidate Bush‘s 1970s drunk—driving arrest get more time on the work newscasts in the final days of the 2020 election than Gore‘s foreign policy statements got in the entire general election? [E] No doubt, ordinarily Americans share responsibility for their lapse in participation。 it is always easier to leave the work of democracy to others. [F] Today, 87 percent of Americans reside in states that close registration two weeks or more before the election. The majority of unregistered Americans who otherwise would cast a vote are out of luck. Only six states allow election—day registration. [G] Their responses tell the story: 81 percent believe ―most political candidates will say almost anything to get themselves elected‖。 75 percent feel ―political candidates are more concerned with fighting each other than with solving the nation‘s problems.‖ 【總體分析】 本篇介紹的是美國人對選舉的興趣日漸減少，并分析了相關的幾個原因。第一段揭示事情本身，后幾段分析原因。就本篇而言，對文章前后結構層次的把握非常重要。 【詳細解答】 41． E 本題考察段落內部的邏輯聯(lián)系，空格的下文說“ But it’ s time to stop blaming the citizens.”，可見上文必然說到有人指責普通公民們不熱衷于美國的政治選舉。故答案為 E。 42． B 本題考察考生對文章的總體結構的把握能力。既然第二段末句說“ Candidates, public officials, and journalists are not giving Americans the type of campaign they deserve ”，而且第三段又說到了officials，下文又將說到 journalists，可以斷定，本段應說“ candidates”，即“ leadership” ,故 B 項為答案。 43． D 本題考察段落內部的邏輯理解，注意相應的詞匯表達。既然空格前講的是 journalists 對政治家的正面言論不感興趣，棄置編輯室地板，而攻擊性的言論卻被直播 (Attack sound bites get airtime。 positive statements land on the cuttingroom floor)，那么可以推論， D 項是最符合邏輯的展開內容， 用詞也密切相關（ get more time on the work newscasts）。 44． G 本題涉及段落內部邏輯的把握。既然上文說“ we interviewed 100,000 Americans to discover why they’re disengaging from elections.”，那么答案為 G，也就很符合邏輯了。 45． F 本題同樣涉及段內邏輯，既然上文說“ Officials unfailingly urge citizens to do your duty and vote.. Yet, these officials embrace policies that make it harder to 新增題型全突破 8/73 do that”（官員們催使公民行駛職責，參加選舉，但另一方面又制定政策，使公民們很難參加投票選舉），那么符合邏輯的答案必定是 F 項了。 Text 2 Directions In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 15, choose the most suitable one from the list AG to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) The place is a lovely meadow surrounded by deep woods on a hilltop overlooking a beautiful lake in the Catskill Mountains 120 miles from New York. It is quarter past eight in the morning, and you are about to mute to your office in the city. Yet there is no paved highway nearer than fifteen miles, and it is fifty to a railroad station. 41) __________________________________________. The aircraft, looking oddly like a horizontal electric fan, drones toward you. When the pilot is directly overhead, all forward movement of the machine ceases and it descends vertically until the cabin door is within a foot of the ground. On the machine‘s gray side is painted Helicopter Express to New York. The door opens and you step inside. Fifty minutes later the helicopter bus hovers over a midtown New York building, descends slowly to alight on a roof space some sixty yards square. You go into the building, take the elevator to the street below, and walk half a block to your office. Not quite an hour has elapsed since you drank your morning coffee in your home. 42) ______________________________________. In the air age of tomorrow, the manu