老夏考研，《每日一题》的“英语文化季”从今天就开始了。尽管英美文化的万花筒色彩斑斓，我们还是从真题“偏爱”的法律文化开始。
这一季的题目也是精彩纷呈。
【题目】空缺部分的最佳选词是 ......
[A] contradicting.
[B]counteracting.
[C] duplicating
[D] paralleling.
【试题】
①In the course of the Convention, the delegates designed a new form of government for the United States. ②The plan for the government was written in very simple language in a document called the Constitution of the United States. ③The Constitution set up a federal system with a strong central government. ④A federal system is one in which power is shared between a central authority and its constituent parts, with some rights reserved to each.
⑤The delegates set up a government consisting of three parts, or branches, the executive, the legislative and the judicial. ⑥Each branch has powers that the others do not have and each branch has a way of _______ and limiting any wrongful action by another branch.
⑦The Constitution specified exactly what power the central government had and which power was reserved for the states. ⑧The states were allowed to run their own governments as they wished, provided that their governments were republican.
⑨The Constitution opens with a statement, called a Preamble, which makes it clear that the government is set up by “We, the People” and its purpose is to “promote the general welfare and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
【参考译文】
①In the course of the Convention, the delegates designed a new form of government for the United States. 在大会期间，代表们为美国设计了一种新的政府形式。
②The plan for the government was written in very simple language in a document called the Constitution of the United States. 政府的计划是用非常简单的语言写在一个叫做美国宪法的文件里的。
③The Constitution set up a federal system with a strong central government. 宪法建立了一个拥有强大中央政府的联邦体系。
④A federal system is one in which power is shared between a central authority and its constituent parts, with some rights reserved to each. 在联邦制中，权力在中央当局与其组成部分之间共享，每个部分都保留一些权利。
⑤The delegates set up a government consisting of three parts, or branches, the executive, the legislative and the judicial. 代表们建立了一个由行政、立法和司法三部分或分支组成的政府。
⑥Each branch has powers that the others do not have and each branch has a way of counteracting and limiting any wrongful action by another branch. 每个分支都有其他分支所没有的权力，并且每个分支都有一种对抗和限制其他分支的错误行为的方法。
⑦The Constitution specified exactly what power the central government had and which power was reserved for the states. 宪法明确规定了中央政府拥有什么权力，以及哪些权力留给各州。
⑧The states were allowed to run their own governments as they wished, provided that their governments were republican. 各州可以按照自己的意愿管理自己的政府，前提是他们的政府是共和政体。
⑨The Constitution opens with a statement, called a Preamble*, which makes it clear that the government is set up by “We, the People” and its purpose is to “promote the general welfare and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity*.”宪法以一项称为序言的声明开篇，明确表示政府是由“我们，人民”建立的，其目的是“促进大众福利，为我们自己和我们的后代确保自由的赐福”。
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