[求助]2002。05月听力最后一talk

jin1

听力原文：

46-50

   We know then that in the US, it's the job of Congress to review propose new laws, which we call bills, and perhaps to modify these bills and then wrote on them. But even if the bill passed in Congress, it still doesn't become a law until the president had a chance to review it too. And if it's not to the president's liking, the bill can be vetoed or killed in either of two ways. One is by a veto message. The president has ten days to veto the bill by returning it to Congress, along with the message explaining why it's being rejected. This keeps the bill from becoming a law unless overwhelming majorities of both houses of Congress vote to over-right the president's veto. Something they really do. Often, lawmakers simply revised the vetoed bill and passed it again. This time, in the form the president less likely to object to, and us less likely to want to veto. The other way the president can kill a bill is by pocket veto. Here's what happen. If the president doesn't sign the bill within ten days, and Congress are jurors during that time, then the bill will not become law. Notice that is only the end of entire session of Congress that the pocket veto can be used, not just whenever Congress take the shorter break, say, for a summer vacation, after a pocket veto, that particular bill is dead. If a lawmaker in Congress want to push the matter in their next session, they'll have to start all over with a brand new version of the bill.

46. What is the main topic of the talk?

题目答案是B:how a bill is passed by lawmaker in congress

可我觉得应该是：how the president can reject a propsed law.

请教！

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-7-19 1:05:29编辑过]

重剑无锋

这道题确实很令人迷惑。我记得我做的时候也犹豫好半天。

我还是认为这篇文章讲议案是怎么通过的，虽然文章确实用大篇幅讲总统可以通过两种途径否决议案。在讲总统如何否决议案的同时提到了如果议会想通过这项提议那么他们可以怎么做。所以中心思想还是议会如何通过一项提议，而总统审查议案是程序的一部分所以一定要讲，在讲总统可以怎样否决之后还是饶回来讲议会如果想通过这项议案需要怎么做。

我的想法是这样，可是另外一个答案也不是完全没有道理。看看其他朋友有没有更好的见解。大家讨论看看。

jin1

可是到最后也是讲的通不过的情况，而且最后一句说的是不同过只能如何如何了。而且说“如果议会想通过这项提议那么他们可以怎么做”也只是带了句，感觉是为了引出下面的。

算了，就按重剑的说法吧，ets也不是圣贤。谢谢重剑