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  3. 【R1】______There have been many such weeks recently, with nearly as many causes—Romney’s insult to the British during the London

【R1】______There have been many such weeks recently, with nearly as many causes—Romney’s insult to the British during the London

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问题     【R1】______There have been many such weeks recently, with nearly as many causes—Romney’s insult to the British during the London Olympics, Clint Eastwood’s bizarre empty-chair monologue at the Republican convention. Each of these has set off an uproar, and then, just as Romney was preparing to "pivot back to the economy"—BAM! He’s reeling again.
    But grim as these episodes have been for the Romney campaign, they have always been accompanied by the fortifying hope that this time, if they can just keep it together, the dreadful economy will await them at the other end. More than anything, the economy was supposed to smooth his path to the White House.【R2】______No incumbent has won a second term with the unemployment rate above 7.2 percent.
    【R3】______But in a more important sense, this strategy is looking awfully shaky. Despite the disappointing recovery, Obama is leading the race, and by a wider margin than two weeks ago. No question the economy is bad—but that might not be enough to elect Romney.
    The Romney campaign " missed a couple things when they bought into the conventional wisdom that this would be a ballots on Obama’s handling of the economy," says William Kristol, the editor of the conservative Weekly Standard and a former George H. W. Bush administration official, who has been pushing Romney to be more aggressive. "The economy’s not great, but it’s not horrible either. We don’t have 18 percent interest rates and gas lines around the block. And the crash came before Obama. He’s not telling an untruth that he inherited an awful mess. " The numbers, and the public’s attitude toward them, back this up.
    Despite last Friday’s tepid jobs figure—the economy added only 96,000 jobs in August, well below forecasters’ expectations—U. S. economic confidence shot up 11 points last week to its highest level of the year.【R4】______
    To be sure, these are moderate numbers. But they don’t match the awful recession Romney and most Republicans are trying to depict on the campaign trail. Instead, they reflect the economy as it really is: growing at a frustratingly slow pace, but still growing.
    Most worrisome in all this for Romney is that voters no longer regard him as the obviously superior candidate to manage the economy.【R5】______Several other polls show a similar split.
    If Romney has indeed lost this crucial advantage, then it invalidates his theory of the race and buttresses the claims of conservatives like Kristol that he’ll need to do more to win. This could explain why Romney felt compelled to make a jumpy attack on Obama’s handling of Libya—and why the race will be harder for him to win even if he does manage to get his act together.
[A]His strategy from the outset assumed that the fundamentals are so weak that Obama couldn’t win reelection.
[B]Romney helped develop and enact into law the Massachusetts health care reform legislation , the first of its kind in the nation, which provided near-universal health insurance access through state-level subsidies and individual mandates to purchase insurance.
[C]In one sense, Romney’s assumption is likely to be justified: Unemployment will almost certainly be above 8 percent on Election Day, and the economy is expanding at a rate that pales in comparison to the way it was during Reagan’s campaign.
[D]Gallup’s broader measure of overall American satisfaction also hit a three-year high in August of 30 percent.
[E]With one ill-advised political statement about the deadly attack on the U. S. consulate in Libya, Mitt Romney ensured that another week would go by when the focus of the presidential campaign wasn’t on the economy.
[F]Romney raised $56? million during 2011, more than double the amount raised by any of his Republican opponents, and refrained from spending his own money on the campaign.
[G]A Fox Opinion Dynamics poll this week showed an even split between him and Obama on who would be better at "improving the economy and creating jobs. "
【R4】
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答案D
解析 本题空格前提到虽然就业状况不是很好，但是上周美国的经济信心指数却上涨了11个百分点，甚至达到今年的最高水平，此句的关键词是economic confidence，这与[D]中的satisfaction表达了同样的意思，该选项引用盖洛普民意调查的数据强调，目前美国人的整体满意度在8月份达到30％，创下了3年来的新高。本段中的数据都是为了凸显作者的观点，即在经济低迷的状况下，美国民众的满意度却仍然飙升，借以说明选民对现任的奥巴马政府还是充满信心的。因此正确答案为[D]。
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