公共外交是政府外交的重要补充,其基础是普通公众,目的在于改善外国公众对本国的态度,影响外国政府对本国的政策。目前,我国每年出境游8000万人次以上。普通游客的言行可以带来公共外交的效果,如举止有度、谈吐得体有正面效果,大声喧哗、不守秩序有负面影响。由此可见（　　）

①公共外交是公众参与政治生活的体现  ②公共外交表明公众利益高于国家利益

③普通公众已经成为国际关系的参加者  ④公共外交帮助公众树立正确的爱国观

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B．①④

C．②③

D．②④

President Bush arrived in Washington and forged ahead with an ambitious agenda- (1) tax cuts, vast changes in federal social programs, expansions of executive power and (2) broad remaking of energy and education policies.
Claiming a mandate by simply declaring (3) existence, his early successes dazzled his critics. With guru Karl Rove directing the (4) , Bush won a stunning series of political victories.
He muscled his agenda through (5) friendly Congress, and gained seats for his party in the 2002 midterm elections. (6) biggest triumph came in 2004, when he won a second term despite a (7) unpopular war.
The "permanent" Republican majority he and Rove envisioned even seemed attainable (8) Bush plunged himself into his most ambitious legislative effort yet: a partial privatization (9) Social Security.
But the president who boasted about "political capital" in the heady (10) after his re-election now faces the worst of political fates as he enters (11) final year in office: borderline irrelevance.
The president’s second term has (12) defined by legislative paralysis, marked by record-low approval ratings, presidential candidates who are (13) from his shadow, and a lingering war that’s sapping his remaining reservoirs of (14) .
As he enters his final year in office with the war continuing, Republican (15) for president bolting from his shadow, and his party back in the minority (16) Congress, he is politically weakened, an early entry into lame-duck status.
And the (17) Washington atmosphere he hoped to cure is just as nasty as it was (18) he came to office seven years ago.
"lie’s left our political institutions much (19) troubled than they were before," said Thomas E. Mann, a senior fellow at (20) Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. "He didn’t create the ideological polarization, but he magnified it. \