问题 选择题

第二次世界大战后,西欧国家开始走向联合的主要原因是

A.经济的恢复和发展

B.深受美国的压迫与剥削

C.苏联威胁日益严重

D.法国与西德已开始和解

答案

答案:A

题目分析:二战后,欧洲走向联合的关键因素还是其自身经济发展。故选A。苏美“冷战”的外部环境也是诱因,但不是主要原因。因此BC错误;D项是西欧走向联合的条件。

点评:欧洲一体化是区域经济政治一体化的典型代表。在二战结束后,欧洲联合提上了议事日程。1952年成立的欧洲煤钢共同体是一体化进程的开端。发展到现在是欧洲联盟。欧洲一体化特别是经济领域的建设需要特别关注。除欧洲一体化进程外,美洲的区域集团化、亚洲的区域集团化也需要了解。

单项选择题
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For the first time, George Bush has acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons around the world, where key terrorist suspects—100 in all, officials say—have been interrogated with "an alternative set of procedures". Fourteen of the suspects, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11th attacks, were transferred on Monday to the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, where some will face trial for war crimes before special military commissions.

Many of these men—as Mr. Bush confirmed in a televised speech at the White House on September 6th—are al-Qaeda operatives or Taliban fighters who had sought to withhold information that could "save American lives". "In these cases, it has been necessary to move these individuals to an environment where they can be held secretly (and) questioned by experts," the president said. He declined to say where they had been held or why they had not simply been sent straight to Guantánamo, as some 770 other suspected terrorists have been.

Mr. Bush also refused to reveal what interrogation methods had been used, saying only that, though "tough", they had been "safe and lawful and necessary". Many believe that the main purpose of the CIA’s prisons was to hide from prying eyes the torture and other cruel or degrading treatment used to extract information from prisoners. But Mr. Bush insisted that America did not torture : "It’s against our laws, and it’s against our values. I have not authorised it—and I will not authorise it."

The Pentagon this week issued its long-awaited new Army Field Manual, forbidding all forms of torture and degrading treatment of prisoners by army personnel—though not the CIA. For the first time, it specifically bans forced nakedness, hooding, the use of dogs, sexual humiliation and "waterboarding" (simulated drowning )—all practices that have been used at Guantámamo and Abu Ghraib.

So why did the president decide now to reveal the CIA’s secret programme Partly, he confessed, because of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that minimum protections under the Geneva Conventions applied to all military prisoners, no matter where they were. This has put American agents at risk of prosecution for war crimes. Mr. Bush has now asked Congress to ban suspected terrorists from suing American personnel in federal courts.

The term "declined" in the last sentence of the second paragraph most probably denotes()

A. refused

B. dropped

C. dived

D. compromised