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[考研类试卷]考研英语（阅读）模拟试卷275 Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points) 0 If there is one central, recurring mistake the United States makes when dealing with the rest of the world, it is to assume that creating political stability is easy. The adversaries in Iraq and Afghanistan remind us that the most important distinction among countries concerns not their form of government but their degree of government. Look around. So many of the worlds problems—from terrorists in Waziristan to the devastating AIDS epidemic in Africa to piracy in Somalia—are caused or made worse by governments that are unable to exercise real authority over their lands or people. That was the central insight of Samuel P. Huntington, the greatest political scientist of the last half-century, who died on Christmas Eve. Huntington is most famous for The Clash of Civilizations, but his scholarly reputation properly rests on his earlier work. His analysis of political order had immediate, real- world applications. While studying the topic, he was asked by Lyndon Johnsons administration to assess the progress of the Vietnam War. After touring the place he argued, in 1967 and 1968, that Americas strategy in South Vietnam was fatally flawed. The Johnson administration was trying to buy the peoples support through aid and development. But money wasnt the key, in Huntingtons view. The segments of South Vietnams population that had resisted the Viet Congs efforts had done so because they were secure within effective local communities structured around religious or ethnic ties. The United States, however, wanted to create a modern Vietnamese nation and so refused to reinforce these backward sources of authority. This 40-year-old analysis describes our dilemma in Afghanistan today. Huntington noticed a troubling trend. Sometimes, progress American style—more political particip