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13.Name one branch or part of the government.
13.列舉一個政府部門。
Answer: Congress/legislative; President/executive; The courts/judicial
答案：國會/立法部門；總統/行政部門；法院/司法部門
Explanation: The United States government is divided into three branches (or parts), and all three share equal (or the same) amounts of power.
解釋：美國政府分為三個部門，它們享有同等的權力。
The easiest way to understand the divisions (or parts) of American government is to think of the government as a tree,
理解美國政府部門最簡單的方法是把政府看成是一棵樹，
with three branches of the same size growing from the trunk (or the base, which is the biggest part of the tree).
樹的主干生長出三根同樣大小的樹叉。
The government was set up this way in the Constitution by the Founding Fathers,
開國元勛撰寫的憲法規定以這種方式設立政府
so that no one branch of government would be able to have absolute power (or total control) over another.
因此沒有哪個政府部門能夠完全控制另外一個政府部門。
The first of the three branches of government is Congress, which is also known as the legislative branch.
三個政府部門中的第一個是國會，又稱為立法機構。
Legislative is another word for lawmaking, so Congress is the branch that makes and passes (or approves) laws.
“Legislative”是另一個表示“立法”的詞，因此國會是制定和通過法律的政府機構。
Congress also has the power to control how the government spends its money, known as appropriations.
國會還控制政府的預算，也就是撥款。
The legislative branch is located in the U.S. Capitol building, a famous building with a dome roof (or round top) in Washington, D.C.
立法機構坐落于美國國會大廈，它是首都華盛頓著名的圓屋頂建筑物。
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