But at the end of five seemingly endless weeks, during which the physical, legal and constitutional machines of the U. S. election were pressed and sorely tested in ways unseen in more than a century, the system finally produced a result, and one most Americans appeared to be willing at lease provisionally to support.
The Bush team welcomed the news with an outward show of restraint and aplomb. The governors hopes had risen and fallen so many times since Election night, and the legal warriors of each side suffered through so many dramatic reversals, that there was little energy left for celebration.
1 The main idea of this passage is
[A]. Bushs victory in presidential election bore a political taint.
[B]. The process of the American presidential election.
[C]. The Supreme Court plays a very important part in the presidential election.
[D]. Gore is distressed.
2 What does the sentence as if to leave space for Mr. Gore to contemplate his next step mean
[A]. Bush hopes Gore to join his administration. [B]. Bush hopes Gore to concede defeat and to support him.
[C]. Bush hopes Gore to congraduate him. [D]. Bush hopes Gore go on fighting with him.
3 Why couldnt Mr. Gore win the presidential election after he outpolled Mr. Bush in the popular vote? Because
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