时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:美国精神


英语课
Explanation:   
  The American Dream is the idea that Americans can do and become anything they want to through hard work. Children are brought up (or raised) to believe that if they work hard enough, they can even become the president of the United States. Almost any American can become president. There are three requirements for becoming president: citizenship 1, residency, and age. Let’s look at them one at a time. 
 
  To become president of the United States you must be a U.S. citizen, or someone who legally is part of the United States and who can vote here. The only exception is if you are a U.S. citizen who was born abroad (or in another country) but whose parents were both U.S. citizens.  In this case, you can still become president. Anyone else, such as an immigrant who came to the United States at a very young age, even as a baby, and became a citizen is not eligible 2 (or does not meet the requirements) to become president. 
 
  The second requirement for becoming president is residency (or where a person has lived and for how long). To be president, in addition to being a citizen you must also have lived in the United States for 14 years. This requirement prevents (or makes it not possible for) someone who was born in the United States but then spent his or her whole life in another country from becoming president. 
 
  Finally, there is an age requirement for becoming president. The president of the United States must be at least 35 years old. So far, the youngest president elected has been John F. Kennedy, who was 43 when he became president. There is no maximum age limit (or upper end). So far, the oldest president has been Ronald Reagan, who was 76 years old when his presidency 3 ended. 
 
  And those are the only three requirements for being president. There are no restrictions 4 or limitations on whether the president is a man or woman, what skin color the president has, what religion the president follows, or anything else. It’s all part of the idea of the great American Dream. 
 
问题:

What is the name of the President of the United States in 2005?  
Answer:   
•  George W. Bush  
•  George Bush  
•  Bush 


1 citizenship
n.市民权,公民权,国民的义务(身份)
  • He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生,但没有瑞典公民身分。
  • Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后,她选择了澳大利亚国籍。
2 eligible
adj.有条件被选中的;(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的
  • He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
  • Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。
3 presidency
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
4 restrictions
约束( restriction的名词复数 ); 管制; 制约因素; 带限制性的条件(或规则)
  • I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
  • a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
学英语单词
a bit of muslin
abnormal hearing
adipocytes
aerodynamic maneuver
alkylantimony halide
aloe chinensis bak.
Ambohibary
analog-digital-analog conversion system
atonest
autograt
be up to one's old tricks
Brooklynite
brunei b.
bull gear reducer
calcium 5'-ribonuucleotide
caveated
cerous hydropyrophosphate
chelseas
Chetopir
Chirita monantha
combining
constant formula diet
copesmate
corporation library
counter-balance piece
davuls
debris storage capacity
decolonialized
descanted
ductography
Duggendorf
encylical
Fanta Shet'
feathering paddle-wheel
finance statistics
fusible interlining
glutinane
go down to
golpe
goodstein
gotterleben
gyffe
have one's fingers in the till
heredo-familial corneal dystrophy
iced-tea spoons
implementation requirement
in view of
inclosure(enclosure)
inner ring axis
internal dielectric membrane
inuredness
inwardmost
kiet
lacewear
large pill
learning activity package
Marquess of Queensberry rules
maximum grinding hole diameter
megalomycin
minelaying
morticer
multi-gradient magnetic separator
multispectral remote sensing system
omit function
overtoils
oxandrin
peace camp
pectinellus
pentagrid converter
Pierofanina
pilot's automatic telephone weather answering service
powder-like fur
pro-europeans
pure clay
pyrophosphatases
qusternary syphilis
r-l-c oscillator
ratchet-toothed escape wheel
raw gasoline
recognized component
revised price
Rubia mandersii
run-on sentences
scheerer
seminal cyst
shell tap
soft emplacement
sowing plot
spongio-
spontaneous request
tank block
tavarus
technofetishist
to smash
tobicillin
total derived functor
triple deck screen
two lined octave
vaccinoids
whitetailed
wrightstown
zawadski