湘湘很厉害，听完了就问：这些是几年级的小朋友?
故事是这样的:
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布什已经退下来了,就回到了他的故乡得克萨斯. 这个星期他去了达拉斯, 是克萨斯次于休斯敦的第二大城市的一所小学参观. 中间,布什就随便进了一个教室, 就和蔼可亲地问学生了: 亲爱的同学们，你们知道我是谁吗？教室里一篇寂静，只听到大家的呼吸声．过了一会儿，终于有个学生勇敢地举手回答了：乔治．华盛顿！布什一点都不惊讶，长期处于被看笑话的浪尖上，这点小风小浪算什么．他立马笑着回答到：回答正确．我就是乔治．华盛顿．布什！
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上网ｇｏｏｇｌｅ了一下，找到了这则新闻的出处．感情，后来还有一小段：
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然后，布什就到了另一个专门教第二外语的班上（ESL class）．布什就开始试图用西班牙语来介绍自己，只可惜，除了听出他浓厚地得克萨斯口音外，学生们脸上面无表情．然后，布什又试了一次，其间还竖起一根中指，哦，不对，是一根中指加上两边的手指，表示W之意．可惜，学生扔是不买他的帐．最后，陪同的小学校长只好亲自用西班牙语把布什介绍给大家．学生恍然大悟，纷纷起笑．布什也笑了．校长也就笑了．如释重负．
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问题：
１．你知道在转载版１里面的POTUS 是什么意思吗？
２．你知道为什么说布什其实很聪明，当他回答说他就是乔治．华盛顿．布什吗？
３．你知道为什么布什要对学生说：你们相信吗，你们也能当总统？
４．你知道去年当胡总书记访问日本一间中文学校时，被问及为什么他要当总书记时的正确回答吗？
５．你能不能想起来，上一次看到或听到类似的故事发生在任何一个中国国家领导人身上吗？如果有,请举例说明.如果没有,请说明为什么.
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学习英文原版：（节选）
１．转载版１：
President who? Kid mistakes W for Washington
It’s been just a little over a month since former President George W. Bush moved out of the White House and back home to Texas, and already some people don’t recognize him.
The former commander in chief popped up this morning at an elementary school in Dallas, sticking his head into classrooms here and there, The Morning News reports.
In one room, Bush asked: "Hey, kids, do you know who I am?"
The young ones all gasped. Then one answered, "George Washington!"
POTUS #43 did not miss a beat. “That’s right!” he said. "George Washington Bush!"
２． 转载版２ Bush pops into Pershing ES this morning
３． 原版： Welcome to your neighborhood school, Mr. President
10:49 AM Wed, Feb 25, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! BuzzIt was open house at Pershing Elementary this morning, a time when neighborhood parents in the Preston Hollow area check out the public school prospects for their children.
But the day's most prominent visitors didn't have any kids in tow. Only Secret Service.
George and Laura Bush have mostly been rumors and fleeting glimpses through the passenger windows of black Suburbans the last few weeks. But the kids got a first-hand look this morning when their new neighbors took a tour.
The Bushes were scheduled to visit three classes, but they ended up popping in on any room with an audience.
Ducking in one room, Bush asked, "Hey kids, do you know who I am?"
Gasps all around, and then someone blurted, "George Washington!"
"That's right!" the visitor said. "George Washington Bush!"
Well, the middle initial was the same, anyway.
A little later, at an ESL class, Bush tried introducing himself in Spanish. Only it was a little too West Texas for the Spanish speakers. He tried again. Blank looks. Even held up three fingers. You know, a 'W." Still nothing.
Finally, Pershing's innovative, energetic principal, Margie Hernandez, stepped in with a Spanish introduction.
Ohhhhhhh.
The kids laughed at the confusion. The former president laughed. The principal laughed, out of relief, mostly.
In a fourth-grade class, a student asked what he did as president to make the world a better place. Among other things, Bush cited aid to hungry children around the world and efforts to stress education, a theme for the day. In each class, he asked kids to make a commitment to spend more time reading than they spend watching TV. A few classes even took him up on it.
Once he finished his tour, he addressed a school assembly, where he related his favorite question of the morning:
"Why did you come here?"
Bush told the kids he came because he saw signs that welcomed him, and it made him feel good, and he wanted to say thanks. He then made some general observations, none more poignant than the first.
"You can be president," he said. "Can you believe that?"
We do now.
He asked for a show of hands as to how many kids wanted to go to college. A room full of arms shot into the air to applause from the adults on hand. He told them that meant they were setting goals for themselves, and if they set goals, they have to work hard to achieve them.
The kids seemed to take it to heart, anyway. Other than clapping, they hardly made a peep.
He told them it was just as important to listen to their teachers.
"I didn't always do that," he said, grimacing.
After his five-minute speech _ he turned to Laura once to ask if he left anything out _ he
thanked the kids, teachers and principal, then filed past the dignitaries, including the superintendent, Michael Hinojosa, and headed out to the hallway.
Outside he was presented with a book on presidents to be dedicated in his honor to the school library. Pershing's lovely PTA president handed him a couple of gift bags that included Pershing's extremely loud tie-dyed T-shirts, which are recognizable at 100 yards, at least.
When I suggested he wear one the next time he goes biking, he said he'd do that. In fact, he's checking out a trail this afternoon.
He thanked everyone for inviting him. He seemed to have such a good time that I told him we could use him for the Dad's Club Haunted House.
"I'd make a good ghost," he said, grinning.
Before the cadre of Secret Service agents swept him out the side door, I asked if he was going to spring training.
"Noooooo," was all he said.
Hope it wasn't something Tom Hicks said over the back fence.
Come back any time, Mr. President. Next time, make it a Monday. Chicken nugget day in the cafeteria. My kids recommend it highly.
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