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After signing an agreement to recognize India as a nuclear power on March 3, US President George W. Bush might be expecting a little Indian love.

The agreement marks a major breakthrough for New Delhi. It allows India to depend on American atomic technology and fuel to meet its increasing energy needs, if American government permits.

Yet many Indians have mixed feelings towards Bush and his country. According to an opinion poll(*測驗)carried out last week by the Indian magazine Outlook, twothirds of the answers say that Bush is a “friend of India”. But 72 percent say that America is “a bully(欺凌弱小者)”, and 59 per cent say that India has “compromised on its foreign policy” to become closer to the US.

“It’s this unilateral(單邊的)thing that makes people upset; you want everything your way, and as long as the world toes your line, it’s fine,” says Anand Mahindra, owner of a computer company in New Delhi.

“But you are the ones who used nuclear bombs in Japan. You used chemical weapons in Vietnam. And you’re the ones driving all those gasguzzling(暴食的) cars. You have no moral(道德的) ground to stand on. Who are you to tell us what to do?”

Many factors tie America and India together—democratic(*的) traditions, economic ties, military(*事的) cooperation, and common views on the war on terrorism. But Bush and his counterpart(對方), Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, admitted that it may take time for the two partners to become close friends.

The key to deepening that relationship will be average Indians. Many of them love American culture, but that doesn’t mean they buy everything America has to sell.

“Indians have always felt close to America on a popular level, to American films, to clothes, to music”, says Dipankar Gupta, an Indian sociologist(社會學家).

“But at the same time, many Indians see America as too domineering(專橫的). It’s like a wife who wishes her husband... would give her more room to grow.”

a hopes to depend on the agreement for support.

Apolitical Benergy Cmilitary Dfood

does the underlined part “toes your line”(in Paragraph 4)mean?

Aallows you to exist Bhelps you Cobeys you Dangers you

writer refers to Japan and Vietnam to show America is.

Aunmoral Bconsiderate Cpowerless Dfriendly

h of the following can serve as the best title for the passage?

AAn agreement benefits India

BRelationship between US and India

CDifferent opinions on AmericanIndian relationship

DFriend or bully?

Anand Mahindra says in Para 4—5 shows.