One of the political issues that is heard a lot about in the States lately is campaign（竞选）finance reform（改革）. The people who are  36  for reform usually want the  37  to pay for campaigns and/or limit the amount of money that candidates（候选人）and their  38  can spend.
One reason that reform is called for is that it costs so much to  39  for political office. Candidates have to spend a great deal of time and effort  40  money. The incumbents (those already in office) have less time to do chief jobs since they must  41  so many money raising events.
Another  42  is the fear that candidates will be owned or  43  by the “special interest groups” that give money to their campaigns. Sometimes this certainly seems to be the  44 .
On the  45  side are those who say that it doesn’t mean it’s really  46  just because you call something “reform”. They argue that the right to freedom of speech is  47  if the government can limit anyone’s ability to get his or her message out to the people.
If one person or a group of people want to tell the  48  what they think about an issue or candidate, they have to buy  49  on TV, radio, and in newspapers and magazines. They might want to put up advertisements along highways and on websites. All this costs a lot of  50 .
Those against laws that control or limit spending say that you don’t really have freedom of  51  or freedom of the press if you can’t get your message out. They say the government should never be able to control  52  discussions. They believe that this is most important when the voters are about to make  53 .
What do you think about this  54 ? Listen to what the candidates for national office have to say. Which candidates  55  the most sense to you?
36．A．waiting                   B．calling                    C．standing                  D．preparing
37．A．government            B．president                 C．candidates               D．citizens
38．A．leaders                   B．bosses                     C．supporters               D．states
39．A．pay                       B．compete                  C．wait                       D．work
40．A．raising                    B．earning                   C．giving                    D．getting
41．A．notice                     B．report                     C．guard                            D．attend
42．A．event                      B．cost                        C．reason                    D．office
43．A．encouraged             B．forced                    C．controlled               D．ordered
44．A．joke                       B．purpose                  C．case                       D．example
45．A．other                      B．same                      C．another                   D．different
46．A．worse                     B．better                            C．easier                            D．harder
47．A．meaningless            B．unimportant            C．unnecessary             D．impossible
48．A．reporters                 B．truth                       C．story                      D．public
49．A．time                       B．copies                     C．rights                            D．advertising
50．A．energy                    B．effort                            C．time                       D．money
51．A．argument                B．opinion                   C．speech                    D．election
52．A．common                 B．political                  C．general                   D．special
53．A．profit                            B．trouble                   C．plans                      D．decisions
54．A．quarrel                   B．problem                  C．issue                       D．affair
55．A．find                       B．make                      C．create                     D．produce