Question

When he took office, George W. Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.

Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(國會議員), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.

At the age of two, Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oil business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.

In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, aboarding school(寄宿學校) that his father had also attended.

At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut.His father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates.

Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and remained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “landsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed great success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself was elected governor of Texas.

In the summer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.

1.What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?

A. George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House.

B. George W. Bush is the first son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush.

C. George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father into the White House.

D. John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents.

2.We may learn from the text that young Bush ______.

A. got on very well at the universities

B. was very good at basketball, baseball and football

C. was a very successful politician like his father

D. did everything as his father had done

3.Which of the following is NOT true about George W. Bush?

A. He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also attended.

B. Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961.

C. He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House.

D. He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years.

Answer 1

1.C

2.C

3.B

【解析】

試題分析：小布什是美國歷史上第二個接替父親當上總統的人。小布什出生于1946年7月6日，1961年，布什離開德克薩斯，前往菲利普學院就讀。小布什在1968年獲得耶魯大學歷史學的學士學位，在1975年獲得哈佛大學工商管理碩士學位。1999年夏，小布什開始競選美國總統。在2001年1月20號，小布什宣誓就職，成為美國第43任總統。

1.George W. Bush...became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century”可知，在美國歷史上，George W. Bush是繼John Quiney Adams之后，第二個接替父親執政的人，文章主要講的是George W. Bush，故選C。

2.At Yale, Bush was considered an average student”排除A；根據倒數第三段“At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader.”可知，小布什是有名的啦啦隊隊長，排除B；小布什的父親是做石油生意的，而小布什沒有創辦自己的石油公司，說明小布什并非做過父親做過的所有的事情，排除D，故選C。

3.At the age of two, Bush moved with his parents...Odessa, Texas,...After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland”可知，1948年，兩歲的小布什隨父母搬到了德克薩斯，一年之后，一家人搬到了加利福尼亞，又過了一年，一家人再次回到德克薩斯。在1948年到1961年間，其中有一年是在加利福尼亞度過的，B項錯誤，故選B。

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