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   Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension

  Directions:

  Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

  Text 1

  U. S.-led occupation authorities have begun a secret campaign to recruit and train agents with the once-dreaded Iraqi intelligence service to help identify resistance to American forces here after months of increasingly sophisticated attacks and bombings, according to U.S.. and Iraqi officials.

  The extraordinary move to recruit agents of former president’s security services demonstrates a growing recognition among U.S. officials that American military forces—already stretched thin—cannot alone prevent attacks like the devastating truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters recently, the officials said.

  Authorities have stepped up the recruitment over the past two weeks, one senior U.S. official said, despite sometimes firm objections by members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, who complain that they have too little control over the pool of recruits. While U.S. officials acknowledge the sensitivity of cooperating with a force that embodied the ruthlessness of the overthrown president’s rule, they assert that an urgent need for better and more precise intelligence has forced unusual compromises.

  “The only way you can combat terrorism is through intelligence,” the senior official said. “It’s the only way you’re going to stop these people from doing what they’re doing.” He added: “Without Iraqi input, that’s not going to work.”

  Officials are reluctant to disclose how many former agents have been recruited since the effort began. But Iraqi officials say they number anywhere from dozens to a few hundred, and U.S. officials acknowledge that the recruitment is extensive.

  “We’re reaching out very widely,” said one official with the U.S.-led administration, who like most spoke on condition of anonymity because of sensitivity over questions of intelligence and sources.

  Added a Western diplomat: “There is an obvious evolution in American thinking. First the police are reconstituted, then the army. It is logical that intelligence officials from the regime would also be recruited.”

  Officials say the first line of intelligence-gathering remains the Iraqi police, who number 6,500 in Baghdad and 33,000 nationwide. But that force is hampered in intelligence work by a lack of credibility with a belief-broken public, and its numbers remain far below what U.S. officials say they need to bring order to an unruly capital. Across Iraq, walk-in informers have provided tips on weapons hidings and locations of suspected guerrillas, but many Iraqis dismiss those reports as occasional and sometimes motivated by a desire for personal gain.

  The emphasis in recruitment appears to be on the intelligence service known as the Mukhabarat, one of four branches in the former security service, although it is not the only target for the U.S. effort. The Mukhabarat, whose name itself inspired fear in ordinary Iraqis, was the foreign intelligence service, the most sophisticated of the four.

  1. America’s attitude towards Iraqi intelligence was one of _____

  [A] disgust [B] hatred [C] fear [D] resent

  2. The word “devastating” (Line 3, Paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to _____

  [A] destructive [B] regretful [C] frustrating [D] terrible

  3. The U.S. officials consider the nature of the recruitments of former security services _____

  [A] give-ins to the bombing

  [B] setbacks of US-led administration

  [C] examples of US-Iraqi cooperation

  [D] compromises of some kind

  24. Which of the following is true regarding the recruitment of the intelligence?

  [A] The new-release people are unwilling to tell anything about themselves.

  [B] It is just a preparatory step for the reconstruction of the Iraqi armed forces.

  [C] The western world as a whole dislikes the idea of reconstruction in this way.

  [D] An obvious connection exists in the reconstructions of the army and the police.

  5. A large part of the Iraqi people hold information about weapon hidings as _____

  [A] fear-inspired [B] money-driven

  [C] unreliable [D] sophisticated

  1.C 2.A 3.D 4.A 5.B

  1.[精解] 本题考查事实细节。第一段提到,以美国为首的占领当局已经开始了一项秘密的活动,招募并培训曾在使人们胆战心惊(once-dreaded)的伊拉克情报局工作过的特工。选项中四个词都是贬义词,与dread最接近的含义是[C]恐惧。

  2. [精解] 本题考查词义理解。“devastating”一词出现在第二段末句,形容最近发生在联合国办事处的汽车炸弹爆炸事件的特点。该句指出,美国官员逐渐认识到过度分散的美国军队已无力独自承担防止这种事件的发生。第一段提到这类爆炸事件时,用了“策划日益精密(increasingly sophisticated)”来形容。由此可见,这类爆炸事件是极具破坏性的,因此引起了美国当局的极大重视。[A]正确,[D]表达含义太泛。

  3.[精解] 本题考查事实细节。第三段末句提到,虽然美官员们承认与伊拉克情报局的特工合作是一件敏感的事,但由于迫切需要更好的、更精确的情报,不得不做出一些不寻常的妥协(compromises)。因此[D]正确。[A]give-ins是原文compromises的同义表达,但to the bombing是错误的。招募行为是美国为对付恐怖主义采取的新举措,而不是遇到的挫折。排除[B]。由于是招募伊拉克特工为美国所用,因此不能看作是美伊两国之间的合作,排除[C]。

  4.[精解] 本题考查推理引申。第五段首句提到,政府官员不愿意公开自招募行动开始后有多少前机构的特工加入。[A]中“新近释放的特工(new-release people)”指的就是该句中的“前机构的特工(former agent)”。[A]中are unwilling to tell与该句中的reluctant to disclose是同义表达。第七段引用一位西方外交官的话指出,无论是之前的“重建警察部队”和“重建军队”,还是现在的“招募情报官员”都是美国人思想进步的表现。因此“招募情报官员”是重建伊拉克武装部队的具体内容,而非筹备活动,排除[B]。西方世界持的是肯定态度,排除[C]。该段没有提到“重建警察部队”和“重建军队”之间的联系,排除[D]。

  5. [精解] 本题考查推理引申。第八段末句提到,很多伊拉克人认为有关武器藏匿的情报偶尔才能得到,而且有时是一些人为获得个人利益而出卖这些情报的。[B]是该句中motivated by a desire for personal gain的改写,因此是正确项。