TAILIEUCHUNG - Kaplan toefl ibt part 14

Tham khảo tài liệu 'kaplan toefl ibt part 14', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 156 TOEFL iBT leaders. Mass media and powerful party organizations make national political campaigns easy to conduct. But there are further problems with the Electoral College system. Because presidential candidates know that they only need electoral votes not popular votes they avoid campaigning in small states or states where they know their opponents are likely to win creating a gulf between themselves and a significant fraction of the electorate. Furthermore many members of political minorities don t bother to vote at all because they know that the candidate they support won t win in their state anyway. Both situations have the effect of reducing citizen representation and form obstacles to a healthy democracy. The final problem with the electoral system is by far the largest one. Because of its winner-take-all nature the Electoral College can actually elect a candidate who received fewer popular votes than the opposition altogether thwarting the purpose of holding an election in the first place. This unfortunate circumstance has in fact come about several times in the nation s history most recently in the 2000 election of George W. Bush. Its original justifications outmoded its operations inscrutable and its effects at odds with the goals of a democracy the Electoral College is an institution that some would like to abandon. In its place the United States should adopt a modern system of electing the President one that will promote not discourage the full participation of all citizens. Such a method will remind our presidential candidates that it is the peoples voices that matter most. Choice C is the correct answer. It correctly describes the rhetorical function of explaining and is true based on the last sentence of paragraph 3. Choice A is incorrect because the rhetorical function used is not description. Choice B is incorrect because paragraph 3 tells us that methods of communication were not advanced at the time. Choice D is incorrect because it uses the .

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