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1995年8月托福考试阅读理解全真试题（下）(3) |
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The desperate plight of the South has eclipsed the fact
that reconstruction had to be undertaken also in the North,
though less spectacularly. Industries had to adjust to peacetime
conditions, factories had to be retooled for civilian needs.
Financial problems loomed large in both the North and
the South. The national debt had shot up from a modest $65
million in 1861, the year the ear started to nearly $3 billion
in 1865, the year the war ended. This was a colossal sum for
those days but one that a prudent government could pay. At
the same time, war taxes had to be reduced to less burdensome
levels.
Physical devastation caused by invading armies, chiefly in
the South and border states, had to be repaired. This herculean
task was ultimately completed, but with discouraging
slowness.
Other important questions needed answering. What
would be the future of the four million black people who were
freed from slavery? On what basis were the Southern states to
be brought back into the Union?
What of the Southern leaders, all of whom were liable to
charges of treason? One of these leaders, Jefferson Davis,
President of the Southern Confederacy, was the subject of an
insulting popular Northern song, "Hang Jeff Davis from a Sour
Apple Tree." And even children sang it. Davis was temporarily
chained in his prison cell during the early days of his two-
year imprisonment. But he and the other Southern leaders
were finally released, partly because it was unlikely that a jury
from Virginia, a Southern Confederate state, would convict
them. All the leaders were finally pardoned by President Johnson
in 1868 in an effort to help reconstruction efforts proceed
with as little bitterness as possible.
41. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Wartime expenditures
(B) Problems facing the United States after the war
(C) Methods of repairing the damage caused by the war
(D) The results of government efforts to revive the economy
42. The word " Staggering" in line 1 is closest in meaning to
(A) specialized
(B) confusing
(C) various
(D) overwhelming
43. The word "devastated" in line 4 is closest in meaning to
(A) developing
(B) ruined
(C) complicated
(D) fragile
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