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Obama’s Energy Policy While the Gulf of Mexico oil sp

游客2023-12-26  21
问题                         Obama’s Energy Policy
   While the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that prompted the president’s speech is an unprecedented catastrophe, it’s nothing compared to what’s ahead if we keep pretending that fossil fuels are cheap. Addressing our habits of carbon consumption isn’t just the most important possible response to this particular disaster. It’s probably the most important issue this president, or any other for the next few decades, will face. Moreover, there’s a fairly clear solution that’s already been outlined: at the moment, there’s an implicit public subsidy for carbon use that enables our reliance, so the government needs to compensate for it by jack up the price of energy somehow. A cap-and-trade system is the preferred method here in much the same way that an insurance mandate was in healthcare reform: it’s a politically palatable partial measure, but far better than nothing.
   But Obama gave a lame speech by only offering vague generalities about " increasing the cost of energy," failing to lay out the case for the reform that he knows perfectly well to be the only viable one. In fact, if the president decided to take the idea of energy reform to the people, he probably still wouldn’t get legislation passed. But even in failure, there’s something to be gained from speaking clearly and honestly to the public.
   Woodrow Wilson was a generally pretty detestable guy, but there’s something Obama could learn from him. At the end of World War I, Wilson expended massive, futile effort trying to convince Americans that the League of Nations was the world’s only hope for peace and stability. The Republicans who opposed Wilson over the League succeeded, in large part, because a weary country wasn’t willing to accept an intellectual president’s high-flown scheme to prevent the recent disaster from repeating.
   When the feeble League failed and the crisis of the 1930s developed into World War II, it offered a kind of perverse validation to Wilson’s effort. By forcefully campaigning for the United States to take a central role in global stability, he had elucidated the choices facing the American people. After World War II, the argument of 1919 reoccurred, but it was won by Wilson’s successor, Harry Truman. The reoccurrence of global war had validated Wilson’s argument, making it much easier for Truman to sell Americans on the Marshall Plan, NATO, the United Nations and, ultimately, the Cold War itself. By being ambitious and clear, Wilson lost, but his side won out in the long term for the same reason. [br] Woodrow Wilson failed in the presidential campaign of 1920 because______.
选项 A、he led America into war
B、he failed to have the US join the League of Nations
C、he failed to prevent the recent disaster from repeating
D、the majority of Americans did not want to be involved in international problems anymore
答案 D
解析 细节题型，答案是D。本题题干为“伍德罗-威尔逊1920年总统竞选失败的原因”，原文中对应内容出现在第三段最后一句“The Republicans’who opposed wilson over the League succeeded in large part， because a weary country wasn’t willing to accept an intellectual president’s high-flown scheme to prevent the recent disaster from repeating．”。从此句及其上下文可知，威尔逊败选的原因在于美国人在经历一战后倍感疲倦，尽管威尔逊力推美国加入国际联盟，声称可以避免一战这样的灾难再次发生，但美国人并不愿接受这样的宏言伟论。与选项对照可见，只有D选项正确反映了原文意思。本题核心：准确理解相关句中的词语细节，包括high-flown scheme的所指及其与to prevent the recent disaster from repeating两者之间的逻辑关系(后者是对前者内容的补充说明)。
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