Each memo has four headings at the top, they are________.
A.To
B.From
C.Date
D.Subject
A.To
B.From
C.Date
D.Subject
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
If soldiering was for the money, the Special Air Service (SAS) and the Special Boat Service (SBS) would have disintegrated in recent years. Such has been the explosion in private military companies (PMCs) that they employ an estimated 30,000 in Iraq alone—and no government can match their fat salaries. A young SAS trooper earns about £ 2,000 ($3,500 ) a month; on the "circuit", as soldiers call the private world, he could get £ 15,000. Why would he not'?
For reasons both warm-hearted and cool-headed. First, for love of regiment and comrades, bonds that tend to be tightest in the most select units. Second, for the operational support, notably field medicine, and the security, including life assurance and pension, that come with the queen's paltry shilling.
Although there has been no haemorrhaging of special force (SF) fighters to the private sector, there has been enough of a trickle to cause official unease. A memo recently circulated in the Ministry of Defence detailed the loss of 24 SF senior non-commissioned officers to private companies in the past year. All had completed 22 years of service, and so were eligible for a full pension, and near the end of their careers. Yet there is now a shortage of hard-bitten veterans to fill training and other jobs earmarked for them, under a system for retaining them known as "continuance."
America has responded to the problem by throwing cash at it, offering incentives of up to $150,000 to sign new contracts. The Ministry of Defence has found a cheaper ploy. It has spread the story of two British PMC employees, recently killed in Iraq, whose bodies were left rotting in the sun.
It can be inferred from the first paragraph that______.
A.the private world is called "circuit" by soldiers
B.PMCs employ an estimated 30,000 soldiers in Iraq alone
C.Britain's best soldiers stand resolute against mammon
D.A young SBS trooper earns about £ 15,000
A(n)______shape has four straight sides at 90°to each other, two of which are much longer than the other two.
A.square
B.oval
C.oblong
D.circular
A、They are all very poor.
B、Each family has four kids.
C、They live in two cottages.
D、They often fight with each other.
A.three
B.four
C.two
D.five
A、Each chariot has four horses in a set.
B、Each chariot has one charioteer in a set.
C、The charioteer stands on each chariot.
D、One of the chariots is called An Che, the other is called Li Che.
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
Eight months after Sep. 11, it is becoming increasingly apparent that various arms of the US government had pieces of information that, if put together, might have provided sketchy advance warning of the terrorist strikes to come.
The White House now acknowledges, that the CIA told President Bush in August that suspected members of A1 Qaeda had discussed the hijacking of airplanes. At the same time, FBI agents were increasingly suspicious of some Middle Eastern men training at US flight schools. Yet the US government didn't pay attention to this information.
"There are always these little indicators that come in—of one sort or another—that don't get enough decibels to receive attention," say former CIA Director Stansfield Turner.
"The possibility of a traditional hijacking—in the pre-9.11 sense—has long been a concern of the government," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. But "this was a new type of attack that was not foreseen." In deed, he said the warnings did not suggest commercial airliners would be used as missiles and that the general assumption was that any attack would occur abroad, not in the US.
Still, the White House says it did quietly alert several government agencies to the threat.
Meanwhile, FBI agents were getting hints of the terrible plot. A classified memo drafted by the bureau reportedly warned in blunt language that Osama bin Laden might be linked to Middle Eastern men taking lessons at US flight schools.
Mr. Turner sees this as a painful and avoidable mistake. The basic reason for the lack of coordination and communication is "a very large intelligence bureaucracy that is very compartmentalized," says Charles Penia, a senior defense analyst at the Cato Institute.
Today, the disclosures raise a crucial question: Have recent reforms boosted Washington's ability to pull together information from its many agencies—and thus disrupt future attacks? Indeed, since Sep. 11, the government has struggled to improve coordination.
One change: FBI data is now merged with CIA intelligence in the president's daily briefing.
Another: A new command center near Washington was set up by White House Homeland Security. It's one place the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and others are able to coordinate and share information. It's not clear yet whether they actually will.
Which conclusion can NOT be drawn from the first three paragraphs?
A.The U.S. government should be partly responsible for 9.11.
B.9.11 event could have been avoided.
C.The U.S. government should have paid more attention to the warnings.
D.The CIA is inevitably responsible for its incorrect information.
A.popularity
B.function
C.efficiency
D.power
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