I doubt that any historically valid treatment of that presidential administration can emerge for at least another decade, if then. I confess that when I came out of the White House I signed up to do an "insider volume," but sober, professional second thoughts have led me to put that project on ice until at least 1980. The problem is that I simultaneously know too much, and not enough. I know what I thought was happening. But I cannot fully document what happened. And I have seen enough highly classified documents to know that most of what the observers thought was happening was at best half right, at worst dead wrong. This has steered me in a different direction as far as writing is concerned. I am now preparing what is frankly and unashamedly an ex parte memoir, "My Experiences in Washington, D. C. " It is based on what I believed to be true, on the picture as I conceptualized it, of the presidential administration under which I worked.
单选题 According to the speaker, the problem with "insider volumes" is that they______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:从文章第一句话“我怀疑总统任期内任何经得起历史考验的论述至少要等十年后才出现”可推知B选项。
单选题 When the speaker says that he "put mat project on ice," he means that he______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:词组put…on ice为俚语,意为“延迟、暂搁”。
单选题 When the speaker says that he simultaneously knew "too much, and not enough," he means that he was______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:作者当时尽管知道的事情很多,但由于置身于内部,难以客观地看待问题,使他感叹“了解得不充分”。
单选题 The speaker"s experience in reading classified documents made him realize that______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:第六句话,意为“我看了许多被列为高级机密的文件,发现大多数观察家们认为当时正发生的事充其量只对了一半,而更糟糕的是根本全错”,由此推知A为正确选项。
单选题 According to the speaker, "My Experiences in Washington,D.C. will deal with______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:根据最后一句话“这本书以我所相信的真实事件为基础,根据我所服务的总统任期的情况概括而写成”推知应选C项。