单选题 September 11th. 2001 drew the transatlantic alliance together; but the mood did not last, and over the five years since it has pulled ever further apart. A recent poll for the German Marshall Fund shows that 57% of Europeans regard American leadership in world affairs as "undesirable". The Iraq war is mainly to blame. But there is another and more intractable reason for the growing division: God.
Europeans worry that American foreign policy under George Bush is too influenced by religion. The "holy warriors" who hijacked the planes on September 11th reintroduced God into international affairs in the most dramatic of ways. It seems that George Bush is replying in kind, encouraging a clash of religions that could spell global catastrophe.
Dominique Moisi, a special adviser at the French Institute for International Relations, argues that "the combination of religion and nationalism in America is frightening. We feel betrayed by God and by nationalism, which is why we are building the European Union as a barrier to religious warfare." Josef Braml, of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, complains that in America "religious attitudes have more of an influence on political choices than in any other western democracy. "
The notion that America is too influenced by religion is not confined to the elites. Three in five French people and nearly as many Dutch think that Americans are too religious--and that religion skews what should be secular decisions. Europeans who think that America is "too religious" are more inclined to anti-Americanism than their fellow countrymen. 38% of Britons have an unfavourable view of America, but that number rises to 50% among people who are wary of American religiosity.
Is America engaged in a faith-based foreign policy? Religion certainly exerts a growing influence on its actions in the world, but in ways more subtle and complicated than Europeans imagine. It is true that America is undergoing a religious revival. "Hot" religions such as evangelical Protestantism and hardline Catholicism are growing rapidly while "cool" mainline versions of Christianity are declining. It is also true that the Republican Party is being reshaped by this revival. Self-identified evangelicals provided almost 40% of Mr. Bushes vote in 2004; if you add in other theological conservatives, such as Mormons and traditional Catholics, that number rises closer to 60%. All six top Republican leaders in the Senate have earned 100% ratings from the Christian Coalition.
It is also true that Mr. Bush frequently uses religious rhetoric when talking of foreign affairs. On September 12th he was at it again, telling a group of conservative journalists that he sees the war on terror as "a confrontation between good and evil", and remarking, "It seems to me that there's a Third Awakening" (in other words, an outbreak of Christian evangelical fervour, of the sort that has swept across America at least twice before). And Christian America overall is taking a bigger interest in foreign policy. New voices are being heard, such as Sam Brownback, a conservative senator from Kansas who has led the fight against genocide in Darfur, and Rick Warren, the author of a bestseller called "The Purpose-Driven Life", who is sending 2,000 missionaries to Rwanda.
Finally, it is true that religious figures have done some pretty outrageous things. Pat Robertson called for the assassination of Hugo Ch vez, the president of Venezuela. Lieutenant-General William "Jerry" Boykin, deputy under-secretary of defence for intelligence, toured the country telling Christian groups that radical Muslims hate America "because we're a Christian nation and the enemy is a guy named Satan". He often wore uniform.

单选题 The increasing transatlantic schism, according to the text, results from ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题是一道细节题,测试考生对原文中重点句子的认识与理解能力。本题的答案信息来源在第一段的尾句,其大意是:“就这样日益加剧的分歧而言,还有另外且更难以处理的原因……。”由此可以推断:大西洋沿岸产生疏远和分歧的原因是多方面的。故选项D应该是本题的正确选项。考生在阅读时要注意重点句子及其含义。
单选题 The phrase "in kind" in the last sentence of the second paragraph most probably denotes ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点解析] 这是一道词汇题,测试考生对原文词语的理解能力。“in kind”是一个固定用法,其含义是“以同样的方式或方法”,故选项D是本题的正确选项。考生在阅读时应该根据上下文或全文的中心主旨去推断陌生词语的含义。
单选题 The view mentioned in the third paragraph at least prevail among ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点解析] 这是一道细节推导题,测试考生对原文细节的把握和推导能力。本题的答案信息来源于第四段的首句,其大意是:“美国很受宗教影响的观点不仅仅局限于上述精英人士中”。由此可以推断:第三段中所涉及的观点是精英人士所持的观点。故选项D是正确选项。考生在阅读时应该注意上下文之问的关联。
单选题 With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题属于中心主旨题型,测试考生把握原文结构和识别原文中心主旨句的能力。本题的答案信息来源于第五段第二句,其大意是:“宗教肯定对美国国际活动起日益强大的影响作用,但是其作用方式要比欧洲人想象的更微妙、更复杂”。由此可以推断本题的正确选项是A。考生在阅读时要注意把握全文的整体结构以及全文的中心主旨句和段落。
单选题 The author evidences his own notion by advancing ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[考点解析] 这是一道细节归纳题,测试考生对原文细节的归纳和总结能力。本题的答案信息来源于第六段的第一句和第三句,第七段的第一句以及尾段的第一句。这四句话中均包含“It is true that…”这一表示事实的句式。这四句话均是为用来进一步阐述说明第五段第二句中所涉及的论点。第五段第二句中的论点就是本文作者的论点。故本题的正确选项是A。考生在阅读时要注意原文段落之间的关系以及对某些重要细节的把握。