In the eyes of the Americans perhaps the most laughable thing Daiwa did was to announce th
A.audacious
B.auspicious
C.ridiculous
D.frivolous
A.audacious
B.auspicious
C.ridiculous
D.frivolous
A.Scientists have solved the mystery about the fish killer.
B.More studies need to be made about the fish killer.
C.It is proved that the algae are reducing fish populations.
D.Humans have already been affected by the toxin.
According to the speaker, Appleton obtained a degree in natural sciences from Cambridge in 1913 and one year later joined the Royal Engineers where he was trained in radio technology invented by Marconi.
A.正确
B.错误
Last fall, when Congress added prescription-drug coverage to Medicare, the new law was hailed as a political masterpiece. Congressional Democrats, who overwhelmingly opposed the bill, thundered that they, too, were eager to provide a drug benefit under Medicare, but they championed alternative legislation that offered a larger drug subsidy and smaller incentives to health insurers to participate. Liberals such as Sen. Edward Kennedy were confident that the drug bill, with plenty of holes in its benefit formulas, would inevitably be expanded around the time it took effect.
Not many in Congress seemed troubled that the federal budget was deep in deficit, the nation was saddled with future expenditures for the Iraq war and virtually no health care expert believed that the legislation would fit into its projected $400-billion-over-10-years cost framework. The new law was a cynical bargain that had more to do with the 2004 election than a rational approach to the prescription-drug needs of the nation's elderly.
The prescription-drag legislation seems a compromise between competing ideologies inserted into a fixed congressional budget. Put another way, it was sausage-stuffing in the guise of lawmaking. And, what no one anticipated was the reaction of the elderly, a group that votes in disproportionate numbers.
The passage you are reading is the beginning part of a report in the original. Then, what is "This", the first word, most probably referring to?
A.An offered illustration.
B.Part of a textbook on politics.
C.What the author is going to write.
D.The principle that voters are shrewder than' most politicians believe.
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