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With a new Congress drawing near, Democrats and Republicans are busily designing competing economic stimulus packages. The Republicans are sure to offer tax cuts, the Democrats--among oth-er things--financial relief for the states. There is one measure, however, that would provide not only an immediate boost to the economy but also immediate relief to those most in need: a carefully craf-ted extension of the federal unemployment insurance program. The Senate approved such an extension before it adjourned in November. The House of Representatives refused to go along. It was among the greatest failures of the 107th Congress.
One consequence is that jobless benefits for an estimated 780,000 Americans will abruptly stop tomorrow, even though most recipients have not yet exhausted their benefits. President Bush failed to show any leadership on this matter during the November Congress. Later, he finally asked Congress to extend the program for these workers and to make the benefits effective from Dec.28.
That´s not enough. The way unemployment insurance typically works is that states provide laid-off workers with 26 weeks of benefits, followed by 13 weeks of federal aid. Under Mr. Bush´s scheme, federal benefits would be extended only for those who were already receiving them on Dec.
28. The extension would not cover the jobless workers who will exhaust their regular state-funded benefits after Dec.28--an estimated 95,000 every week--but will receive no federal help unless the program is re-authorized. By the end of March,1.2 million workers could fall into this category.
The Senate saw this problem coming, and under the leadership of Hillary Rodham Clinton for New York and Don Nickles of Oklahoma, passed a bill that would not only have covered people al-ready enrolled in the federal program but provided 13 weeks of assistance for those losing their state benefits in the new year. The House, for largely trivial reasons, refused to go along.
Bill Fdst,the new Senate majority leader,says he is looking for ways to put a kinder, gentler face on the Republican Party. Passing the Clinton-Nickles bill would be a good way to begin. The House should then follow suit. One of the House´s complaints last year was that, at $ 5 billion, the Clinton-Nickles bill was too expensive. That´s ridiculous, considering the costs of the tax cuts that House Republicans have in mind.
The unemployment rate last month stood at 6 percent, the highest since mid-1994. The country could use a $ 5 billion shot in the arm fight about now. So could a lot of increasingly desperate peo-ple.
According to the author，the proposed extension is

A．what the coming Congress should reconsider．
B．excluded from the economic stimulus packages．
C．a relief program carefully designed by the House．
D．put forward by both Republicans and Democrats．

参考答案A

解析:参考译文
随着国会换届选举的临近，民主党和共和党都竞相推出了刺激经济发展的政策。共和党肯定会提议减税，在民主党众多政策之中，有一项是为各州提供财政援助。有一项措施不仅能够立即促进经济发展，而且能够立即缓解那些最需要帮助的人们的经济困难：精心打造的联邦政府失业保险延期项目。参议院在十一月休会之前批准了该项目。而众议院却不赞同。这是第107届国会最大的失败之一。
联邦政府失业保险延期项目被否决所造成的一项后果是，大约780000美国人从明天开始将不能领到失业保险金，即使大多数人的领取期限并未到期。十一月国会期间，布什总统并未在该事件上表现出任何领导能力。后来，他终于请求国会为这些工人实行联邦政府失业保险延期项目．并使该项目自12月28日起开始生效。
这些还不够。通常，失业保险包括26周州政府救济及13周联邦政府援助。在布什总统的计划中，联邦政府失业保险延期项目的受益对象只是那些在12月28日已经领到失业保险金的失业者。该延期项目并未涵盖那些12月28日之后州政府失业保险金到期的失业者——每周大约有95000人——除非该项目被重新授权，否则这些人不会得到联邦政府的援助。截止到三月底，将会有一百二十万失业者领不到联邦政府的失业保险金。
参议院意识到了这一问题，在纽约州参议院希拉里·罗达姆·克林顿和俄克拉荷马州参议院唐·尼克斯的领导下通过了一项法案，该项法案不仅涵盖那些已经在联邦政府失业保险项目中登记入册的人们，并且为那些将在新的一年中丧失州政府失业保险金的人们提供13周的援助。而众议院由于某些微不足道的原因拒绝批准该法案。
参议院多数党新领袖比尔．福利斯特说，他正在寻求使共和党树立一个更加友善，更加温和形象的方法。克林顿-尼克斯法案的通过将会是一个好的开始。众议院应该紧随其后。去年众议院反对该法案的其中一个理由是认为该法案50亿的投入耗资太大。而这与众议院共和党减税计划需要耗费的资金相比，这个理由实在是太可笑了。上个月失业率达到了6％，是1994年中期以来的最高水平。此时，国家正好可以利用50亿的投资来缓解压力，而许多逐渐绝望的人也会因此重新振作起来。
答案及解析
该题为细节题。根据第一段最后一句“It was among the greatest failures of the 107th Congress．”可知，第107届国会最大的失败之一就是没有实施联邦政府失业保险项目，由此，可以推断出，作者认为下一届政府应该重新考虑实施该项目，故A项正确；根据该段第一至三句“With a new Congress drawing near，Democrats and Republicans are busily designing competing econom-ic stimulus packages．The Republicans are sure to offer tax cuts，…a carefully crafted extension of the federal unemployment insurance program．”可知，联邦政府失业保险延期项目包含在刺激经济发展政策之中，故B项错误；同时该项目不是由共和党和民主党共同提出的，故D项错误；根据该段第五句“The House of Representatives refused to go along．”可知，众议院不赞同联邦政府失业保险延期项目，由此可以推断出，该项目不是由众议院推出的救济项目，故C项错误。

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单选题Who may benefit from the Clinton-Nickles bill?

A．Only those enroHed in the federal program．
B．The estimated 95，000 unemployed workers．
C．Just those exhausting their state-funded benefits．
D．Laid-off workers，with or without federal benefits．

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A．The reasons it offers are largely insignificant．
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