According to defense officials,the purpose of the Pentagon creating the special Support Br
A.delve into CIA territory.
B.help gather military intelligence.
C.rival the CIa.
D.bend the law.
A.delve into CIA territory.
B.help gather military intelligence.
C.rival the CIa.
D.bend the law.
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the defense made by the lawyers?
A.The Rigas family are not so clever as to bankrupt the company.
B.Martha Stewart is so clever as not to break the securities law.
C.Kozlowski does not intend to commit a crime since everything is in the open.
D.Greed is good for the economy to develop.
A.was an attempt to curtail their own departmental power
B.was an attempt to block public access to information
C.would violate national security agreements
D.would pose administrative problems
According to the passage which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
A.August 24th, 1814 was remembered as the one of the darkest days.
B.Some top officers were not willing to be prepared against the war.
C.The city was indefensible at the time.
D.Winder was unqualified for the defense of the city.
According to the news, what are Defense Department officials expected to do on Friday?
A.To announce the plans to detect drug smugglers.
B.To stop the flow of drugs northward from Latin America.
C.To expand the use of military personnel.
D.To throw more ships, planes and personnel into the anti-drug movement.
Driven by a triumphalist ideology, an exaggerated sense of threats, and a self-serving military- industrial complex, this juggernaut is tightening its grip on much of the world. The Pentagon has re- placed the State Department as the primary shaper of foreign policy. Military commanders in regional headquarters are modern-day proconsuls, warrior-diplomats who direct the United States' imperial reach. Johnson fears that this military empire will corrode democracy, bankrupt the nation, spark opposition, and ultimately end in a Soviet-style. collapse.
In this rendering, the American military empire is a novel form. of domination. Johnson de- scribes it as an "international protection racket: mutual defense treaties, military advisory groups, and military forces stationed in foreign countries to" defend" against often poorly defined, overblown, or nonexistent threats." These arrangements create "satellites"—ostensibly independent countries whose foreign relations revolve around the imperial state.
Johnson's previous polemic, Blowbaek, asserted that post-1945 U.S. spheres of influence in East Asia and Latin America were as coercive and exploitative as their Soviet counterparts. The Sorrows of Empire continues this dubious line. Echoing 1960s revisionism, Johnson asserts that the United States' Cold War security system of alliances and bases was built on manufactured threats and driven by expansionary impulses. The United States was not acting in its own defense; it was exploiting opportunities to build an empire. The Soviet Union and the United States, according to this argument, were more alike than different: both militarized their societies and foreign policies and expanded outward, establishing imperial rule through "hub and spoke" systems of client states and political dependencies.
Unfortunately, Johnson offers no coherent theory of why the United States seeks empire. At one point, he suggests that the American military empire is founded on "a vast complex of interests, commitments, and projects." The empire of bases has become institutionalized in the military establishment and has taken on a life of its own. There is no discussion, however, of the forces within U. S. politics that resist or reject empire. As a result, Johnson finds imperialism everywhere and in everything the United States does, in its embrace of open markets and global economic integration as much as in its pursuit of narrow economic gains.
According to the passage, which of the following is the most important character shared by both satellite and "satellite" countries?
A.Revolving around a center body.
B.have no orbit of their own.
C.dependent.
D.smaller than others.
Behind the success of the product, which was used to write this article, lies military technology. Traditionally, speech recognition systems have been limited in use because they must be treated with care and dictated to slowly with no interfering background noise. In addition, previous systems have had to get accustomed to the voice of an individual user. The Speech Machine's system can operate in high-noise environments and will usually recognize voices immediately. Features like this were developed by the Defense Research Agency.
Users must dictate punctuation marks, such as "comma" and "new paragraph" which the system recognizes as such rather than writing the exact words. The finished document can also be faxed to clients or to the user's base office. The benefit of the service is that it requires no extra training for users. Many professionals already know how to dictate documents because they do it all the time. Using the Net, the clients and typists can be anywhere in the world and the service will run 24 hours a day.
According to the passage, the Speech Machine's system was developed by ______.
A.the telephone office
B.a British company
C.the Defense Research Agency
D.the military service
According to this passage, which of the following statements is true?
A.To avoid decay and deterioration, we must keep the world permanently stable.
B.The world is always changing, so we must adjust ourselves to new conditions.
C.The important point of evolution is that the world undergoes movement forward and movement backward alternately.
D.Tradition often become an obstacle lying across the path of change and progress.
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The World Health Organization(WHO)says as many as 10 million persons worldwide may have the virus that causes AIDS(艾滋病).Experts believe about 350,000 persons have the disease。And one million more may get it in the next five years.In the United States,about 50,000 persons have died with AIDS.The country’s top medical official says more than 90 percent of all Americans who had the AIDS virus five years ago are dead.
There is no cure for AIDS and no vaccine(疫苗)or medicine to prevent it.However,researchers know much more about AIDS than they did just a few years ago.We now know that AIDS is caused by a virus.The virus invades healthy cells,including white blood cells that are part of our defense system against disease.It takes control of the healthy cell’s genetic(基因的)material and forces the cell to make a copy of the virus.The cell then dies.And the virus-caused particles move on to invade and kill more healthy cells.
The AIDS virus is carried in a person’s body fluids(液体).The virus can be passed sexually or by sharing instruments used to take intravenous(进入静脉的)drugs.It also can be passed in blood products or from a pregnant woman with AIDS to her developing baby.
Many stories about the spread of AIDS are false.You cannot get AIDS by working or attending school with someone who has the disease.You cannot get it by touching drinking glasses or other objects used by such persons.Experts say no one has gotten AIDS by living with,caring for or touching an AIDS patient.
第 16 题 According to the WH0,there are now 10 million AIDS patients in the world.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned