2022-2023学年山东省淄博市考研外语真题一卷含答案

2022-2023学年山东省淄博市考研外语真题一卷（含答案）学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、2.Reading Comprehens

2022-2023学年山东省淄博市考研外语真题 一卷（含答案） :________ :________ :________ :________ 学校班级姓名考号 2.Reading Comprehension(10) 一、题 1.Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, Cor D. (40 points) Shortly after September 11th, President Bushes father observed that just as Pearl Harbor awakened this country from the notion that we could somehow avoid the call of duty to defend freedom in Europe and Asia in World War Two, so, too, should this most recent surprise attack erase the concept in some quarters that America can somehow go it alone in the fight against terrorism or in anything else for that matter. But America's allies have begun to wonder whether that is the lesson that has been learned—or whether the Afghanistan campaign's apparent success shows that unilateralism works just fine. The United States, that argument goes, is so dominant that it can largely afford to go it alone. It is true that no nation since Rome has loomed so large above the others, but even Rome eventually collapsed. Only adecade ago, the conventional wisdom lamented an America in decline. Bestseller lists featured books that described America's fall. Japan would soon become "Number One". That view was wrong at the time, and when Iwrote "Bound to Lead" in 1989, I, like others, predicted the continuing rise of American power. But the new conventional wisdom that America is invincible is equally dangerous if it leads to aforeign policy that combines unilateralism, arrogance and parochialism. Anumber of advocates of "realist" international-relations theory have also expressed concern about America's staying power. Throughout history, coalitions of countries have arisen to balance dominant powers, and the search for traditional shifts in the balance of power and new state challengers is well under way. Some see China as the new enemy; others envisage aRussia-China-India coalition as the threat. But even if China maintains high growth rates of 6% while the United States achieves only 20%, it will not equal the United States in income per head until the last half of the century. Still others see auniting Europe as apotential federation that will