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Today I am going to tell you something about President Chester Arthur and hi
Today I am going to tell you something about President Chester Arthur and hi
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Today I am going to tell you something about President Chester Arthur and his civil service reform. Chester Arthur was elected vice-president of the United States in 1880. In the summer of 1881 President James Garfield was assassinated. A few hours after the President’s death, Chester Arthur took the oath of office. President Arthur had been a successful lawyer and worked in politics for many years, but he had never held an elected office, so in the beginning, some Americans questioned his ability to serve in the White House. President Arthur surprised them; his success in the reform of the civil service system won him much support from the people.
In his first message to Congress President Arthur proposed a new civil service system that would let ability, not politics, decide who got government jobs. The Republican Party leaders opposed this proposal because the civil service system would stop them form giving federal jobs to their supporters. It would destroy much of their power. These Republican leaders controlled the Congress. They refused to act on the civil service proposal.
New cases of dishonesty were discovered in government departments. The public began to demand laws to clean up the civil service. In 1882 a new Congress was elected. The new Congress was controlled by the Democratic Party. President Arthur again appealed for civil service reform. This time he got results. The new Congress passed the Civil Service Bill, which required 10 percent of all federal jobs to be filled through competitive examinations. This 10 percent included most workers at the Federal Customs Houses and half the officials in the Post Office Department.
Chester Arthur’s efforts for honest government won him much support from the people, but he could not win the support of his own Republican Party. He failed to win the Presidential nomination in the Republican Nominating Convention in 1884.
Questions: [br] This passage seems most likely to be______.
选项
A、a speech given by a teacher
B、a lecture provided by an economist
C、a review written by a journalist
D、an editorial published in a newspaper
答案
A
解析
第5题要求推断这篇文章最可能是什么体裁。通读全文,根据文章内容和文章里面的措辞,我们可以推断出此题的正确答案应是A:教师的讲课。而不可能是B:经济学家的演讲,也不可能是C:记者的评论,更不可能是D:报纸上的社论。
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