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In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、
In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、
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2010-11-27
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In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)
After its misadventures in 1993, when American marines were driven out of Somalia by skinny gunmen, America has used a long spoon in supping with Somalia’s warlords. This, like so much else, changed on September 11th. (41)______.
Clandestine up to a point: within hours of the arrival in Baidoa of nine closely cropped Americans sporting matching satellite phones and shades, their activities were broadcast. After meeting various warlords, the group inspected a compound that had apparently been offered to them as their future base. They also saw an old military depot. Neither can have been encouraging: the compound has been taken over by war-displaced families and the depot by thorn-scrub.
America was already convinced of al-Qaeda’s presence in Somalia. It had listed a Somali Islamic group, al-ltihaad al-Islamiya (Islamic Unity), as a terrorist organization. (42)______. It fears that lawless Somalia could become a haven for escapes from Afghanistan. The American navy is currently patrolling the country’s long coastline, while spy planes are said to be crisscrossing the heavens.
(43)______. With a little bit of help, he told his American visitors, he would be ready "to liberate the country from these evil forces". America had already heard as much through its embassies in Nairobi and Addis Ababa, which maintain contact with the warlords, and from Ethiopia.
The warlords are supported by Ethiopia, which has a historical fear of a strong Somalia. in a bid to oppose the government. But their differing views on where to strike at the "terrorists" reveal that their individual ambitions are even sharper than their dislike of the government.
Mr. Ismail says that Merca, which is claimed by his Rahanwein clan, is the capital of terror. (44)______. The U.N. says there is only an orphanage there now. But the island is close to Mr. Morgan’s home town of Kismaayo, which he failed to capture from a pro-government militia in July, and he is determined not to fail again.
None of this looks good for Somalia’s official president, Abdiquassim Salad Hassan, whose government is in control of about half the capital, Mogadishu. He has formed his own anti-terrorism unit, and invited America to send investigators, or even troops. America, armed with stories about the presence of al-Itihaad members held back, but on December 18th sent an envoy to Mogadishu.
Both Mr. Hassan and the UN say that al-Itihaad is not a terrorist organisation. It emerged as an armed force in 1991. battling for power in the aftermath of Siad Barre’s fall. It had some early successes, briefly taking Kismaayo. But it was always dependent on the blessing of its members’ clan elders. When the elders eventually called their fighters back, a hard core of Islamists fled to the Gedo border region where, in 1997, they were crushed by Ethiopian troops. (45)______.
The Baidoa alliance plainly hopes to be supported as proxies in a fight against "terrorism" and the Mogadishu regime. But the latest intelligence leaks suggest that the first reports may have overestimated al-Qaeda’s presence in Somalia. Nor would Mr. bin Laden and his henchmen find it easy to lie low in an oral culture that considers rumor-mongering to be a form of manners. Even so, the warlords seem to believe that they have won some promise of help. Soon after the arrival of the American group, they pulled out of the peace talks they had been holding with their government in Nairobi.
A. Al-Itihaad subsequently infiltrated Somalia’s business class, and now runs Islamic schools, courts and clinics with the money it has accumulated.
B. According to Abdullahi Sheikh Ismait, the acting chairman of the loose alliance of warlords who control most of Somalia and are based in Baidoa. there are "approximately 20,480 armed extremists" in Somalia and "85% of the government is al-Itihaad".
C. Muhammad Hersi Morgan, known as the "butcher of Hargeisa" because he once razed that town to the ground, says an al-Itihaad camp on Ras Kamboni island, is still active.
D. But since September 11th 2001, western governments, anxious to prevent al-Qaeda from using Somalia as a base, have pressed the warlords to make peace.
E. American intelligence officers are working with two warlords to gather information about suspected at-Qaeda people in Somalia.
F. On December 9th America sent a clandestine mission to talk to a collection of Somali warlords, who like to claim that their country, in particular their UN-sponsored government, is overrun with terrorists
G. It had also forced the closure of Barakaat, Somalia’s biggest banking and Telecoms Company, which handles most of the remittances that Somalis working abroad send back to their families.
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答案
F
解析
本段主要讲述"9.11"事件前美国对索马里采取的政策,然后引出"9.11"事件后其政策的改变。从上文中"This. like so much else, changed on September 11th".可以推断,接下来讲的应该是事件后的举措。D、E、F似乎都与事件后的举措有关,但D讲的是西方国家的总体策略,E讲的是美国情报人员的具体行动,只有F讲的是美国举措,而且下面一段讲的就是这个举措的具体情况。因此F与上文内容相吻合。
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