华慧2014年3月中科院考博英语真题阅读理解Section B 第二篇选句填空.pdf

2014年3月份中科院考博英语真题 阅读理解Section B第二篇 Passage Two In 2004 and again in 2006, women told pollsters that the concerns that motivated them to decide whether and for whom to vote were centered on nontraditional womens issues. Women are not single-issue voters, either. 71) ______.In reality, womens voting patterns indicate quite the opposite. Women are not monolithic in their attitudes about, or votes within, the political system. 72) ______. In the end, women voters ask themselves two core questions when deciding whom to support for president: Do I like that person? and s that person like me? The first question is the classic living room test. The second is a more complex inquiry that probes whether women believe a candidate cares about, values, confronts, and fears the same things they do. Party loyalty trumps gender, as indicated by a July 2007 Newsweek survey, which found that 88 percent of men and 85 percent of women say that if their party nominated a woman candidate that they would vote for her if she were qualified for the job. 73) ______.Only 60 percent of men and 56 percent of women believe that the country is ready for a woman president. With regard to race, voters are less hesitant to vote for a qualified African-American candidate of their party, as 92 percent of whites and 93 percent of nonwhites say that they would endorse such a candidate. 74) ______.Only 59 percent of white voters and 58 percent of nonwhite voters believe that the country would elect a black president. Whereas the contest for president is the most wide-open in decades, one thing is certain: 75) ______. A. The medias focus on the contentious ones makes it seem as if women only care about one issue on Election Day and that it takes special attention to that issue to compel women to vote B. Traditionally, women are thought to gravitate more toward the SHE cluster of issues, Social Security,