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  3. 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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问题     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.
The conclusion can be made from the third paragraph that______.
选项 A、the Ministry of Defence detailed 24 SBS troopers
B、the fat salaries by the private military companies have worked to some SF troopers
C、the present system for retaining hard-bitten veterans is impeccable
D、20 years of service underlies a full pension
答案B
解析 本题是一道细节推导题，测试考生对让步转折的识别分析能力，尤其是引申推导能力。本题正确答案的信息来源是第三段首句，该句的含义是“虽然特种军队中的军人没有大量地流失到私人军事部门，但是流失的人数已足以导致官方的不安”。由此可以推断：私人军事部门的高薪水对一些特种军队的军人已经起了作用，这些军人已经加入到私人军事部门。可 见本题的正确选项是B。
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