首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law. After deliberately targeting
The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law. After deliberately targeting
admin
2013-11-10
64
问题
The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law. After deliberately targeting the civilian public health infrastructure (建筑基础), the US military imposes a continuing economic blockade on Iraq which has directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children. The US government is the primary financier and arms supplier for the decade-long Israeli war against the entire Palestinian people. The US armed forces and US-organized and/or US-financed ally or proxy forces have killed millions upon millions of civilians since the end of World War II. This is the not-so-hidden meaning of the Stars and Stripes, as the vast majority of people around the world understand it.
Now the US government has begun what it bills as an open-ended "War on Terrorism" which conveniently ignores the fact that in the late Twentieth Century and the beginning of the Twenty-first Century it is the United States of America that, by its own definition, is the most prolific terrorist force in the world. At the same time US leaders are choosing to target whichever individuals, organizations, regimes and/or nation-states? among the wide array of opponents of US policies — are deemed most convenient this week, leaving the rest for next week, next year or the next decade. This is, of course, a recipe for a perpetual war, which is as well understood by President Bush and the other architects of the "New World Order" as it was by the architects of a similar project of world empire that was proudly proclaimed the Third Reich (希特勒的第三帝国), under a flag with a similarly not-so-hidden meaning.
Perpetual war serves a number of purposes for the present administration. It is under wartime conditions that the U.S. will, at least initially, face the least resistance as it finishes the now over two century-long processes of gutting the Bill of Rights and voiding the inconvenient parts of the US Constitution. It is under conditions of war that the campaign to defeat the anti-globalization movement can be fought with increasingly militant and dirty tactics. It is under wartime conditions that all opponents of US policies anywhere in the world, including within the U.S. itself, can be most easily labeled "terrorist" at the same time that the mass media can be most easily mobilized as a total propaganda machine. And it is under conditions of war that the arms production, oil production and military technology corporations that funded President Bush’s election by the Supreme Court will be most handsomely rewarded without too many questions ever being asked. And best of all, wartime conditions lend themselves to the easy mobilization of xenophobic (仇视外国人的), politically reactionary, flag-waving patriotism.
Which of the following statements can be used to best sum up the whole passage?
选项
A、The US Government has done so much against the US Constitution.
B、The US Government has begun an open-ended "War on Terrorism".
C、The U.S. should be condemned for international terrorism.
D、The U.S. should be compared to the Third Reich.
答案
C
解析
主旨题。作者写作此文的目的是谴责美国政府以“反恐”和建立“世界新秩序”为名而发动的战争,指出美国才是世界上影响散布最广的恐怖势力,因此,选项C最能涵盖文章的思想。其余三个选项分别指责美国政府的各种行径,不足以用来概括全文。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/gMGK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Twoyearsago,myparentsstartedcollectingtheirSocialSecuritychecks,therebyconfirmingwhatIhadalwaysthoughtthemto
Whichofthefollowingitalicizedphrasesindicatessubject-predicaterelationship?
WhatisthereasonforreducingtroopsinIraq?
Writeanoteofabout50-60wordsbasedonthefollowingsituation:YouareMikeandyouorderedabookfromanonlinestor
Thebrownthrasherisnotaparticularlylargeorstrongbird,______equippedforfighting.
Literatureisaformofartthatcanbeenjoyedwithoutformal【C1】______;however,peoplewith【C2】______knowledgeofliterat
InAmericancityschools,howmanystudentsareabsentonadallybasis?
Wheredidtheeventhappen?
Parentsoftenwonderwhattheirlittleonesareabsorbingfromthem.Forexample,mymotherhadawonderfulvocabulary.Soitma
Thepoorthinghashadatoothout,sohecan’ttalkbutmanagesto______tocaptureattention.
随机试题
男,10个月,因阵发性哭闹、呕吐、果酱样大便来诊。初步为急性肠套叠。护理评估中最有意义的客观资料是
根据《建设工程安全生产管理条例》规定,实行施工总承包的建设工程发生施工生产安全事故后,应由()向当地安全生产监督管理部门报告。
关于路基工程石方施工安全要点的说法错误的是()。
当组成部分注册会计师基于集团审计目的对组成部分财务信息执行相关工作时,()。
“需要层次论”认为,人的最高需要是()。
成功摘掉“雾都”帽子的伦敦,是许多人心目中治理空气知耻而后勇的_________。但60年后,伦敦的境况并不乐观,空气难达标,欧盟屡警告,这似乎也昭示着空气治理从来不是_________的事情,也提醒着我国治理之路的漫长。填入画横线部分最恰当的一项是:
设随机变量X和Y相互独立,都在(一a,a)上服从均匀分布,求Z=XY的概率密度。
设f(x)连续,且f(x)一2∫0xf(x—t)dt=ex,则f(x)=_______.
奈奎斯特定理描述了有限带宽、无噪声信道的最大数据传输速率与信道带宽的关系。对于二进制数据,若信道带宽B=3000Hz,则最大数据传输速率为______。
在窗口中直接键入?HOUR({^2003-01-0204:59:23PM}),则结果为______。
最新回复
(
0
)