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北外2008年基础英语考研试题第一篇（经济学家 2007年01月25日）选择题Climate change The greening of America??气候变化：绿化美国 Jan 25th 2007 From The Economist print editionHow America is likely to take over leadership of the fight against climate change; and how it can get it right美国领导各国共同应对气候变化的可能性有多大？该如何正确应对呢？A COUNTRY with a presidential system tends to get identified with its leader. So, for the rest of the world, America is George Bushs America right now. It is the country that has mismanaged the Iraq war; holds prisoners without trial at Guantanamo Bay; restricts funding for stem-cell research because of fundamentalist religious beliefs; and destroyed the chance of a global climate-change deal based on the Kyoto protocol.人们往往认为，总统制国家就是其总统的国家。因此，在世界其他国家看来，现在的美国就是乔治?布什的美国。正是这样一个国家，对伊拉克战事处置失当，把战俘关押在关塔那摩海湾又不审讯，顾及原教旨主义分子的宗教信仰而限制对干细胞研究的资助；也正是这样一个国家，拒绝签署《京都议定书》有关的全球气候变化协议。But to simplify thus is to misunderstand—especially in the case of huge, federal America. One of its great strengths is the diversity of its political, economic and cultural life. While the White House dug its heels in on global warming, much of the rest of the country was moving. Thats what forced the presidents concession to greens in the state-of-the-union address on January 23rd. His poll ratings sinking under the weight of Iraq, Mr Bush is grasping for popular issues to keep him afloat; and global warming has evidently become such an issue. Albeit in the context of energy security, a now familiar concern of his, Mr Bush spoke for the first time to Congress of “the serious challenge of global climate change” and proposed measures designed, in part, to combat it.不过，只见树木，不见森林，对于泱泱联邦大国美国而言尤为如此。美国的重要特点之一就在于其政治、经济和文化生活的多样性。当白宫在全球气候变暖问题上始终坚持拒绝有所作为时，该国其他许多人都行动了起来。这也迫使总统在1月23日的国情咨文中对环保人士作出让步。受伊战所累，布什的民意支持率一路下滑，他也希望抓住民众关心的问题来提升自己的支持率，而全球气候变暖显然就成了这样一个问题。当下布什最关心的是能源安全问题，但尽管如此，布什还是以能源安全为依托，（在国情咨文讲话中）首次对国会提及“全球气候变化带来的严峻挑战”，并建议制定相应的应对措施。Hot for the time of year 年度热点Its the weather, appropriately, that has turned public opinion—st