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If soldiering was for the money, the Special Air Service (SAS) and the Special Boat Service (SBS) would have disintegrated in re
If soldiering was for the money, the Special Air Service (SAS) and the Special Boat Service (SBS) would have disintegrated in re
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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.
In the last paragraph of the text, the author has______.
选项
A、comment on a tip
B、anticipate a result
C、made a contrast
D、depict a sample
答案
C
解析
本题是一道细节题,测试考生识别理解文中有关对比的信息和内容的能力。尾段首句讲:美国人用提供重金来解决相关问题(offering incentives of up to $150,000 to sign new contracts)。而尾段第二句则说:英国的国防部找到一条比美国人少花钱的办法(The Ministry of Defence has founded a cheaper ploy)。显而易见,本文作者在尾段针对相关问题拿美国和英国作了一个对比,比较它们在处理相关问题时方法上的不同。故本题的正确选项应该是C“made a contrast”(进行了一次对比)。
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考研英语一
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