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英语四级听力部分算是同学们考试时的难点吧。听力这部分不能急于求成，需要时间来练习。对于这部分同学们平时在积累词汇的基础上多加练习就可以，听的多了就能掌握技巧，距离12月份的四六级考试还有一段时间，同学每天练习一点听力，考试时听力就能取得高分了。
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United States officials say the force level and dutiesof U.S. and NATO troops remaining in Afghanistanafter December have not changed. But media reportssay more U.S. troops will be staying than thenumber announced. The reports also say thetroops' rules for military operations will beexpanded.
Recently, a U.S. Defense Department official toldreporters that the U.S. forces will not specifically goafter Taliban targets. But he said anyone thought tobe a threat to U.S. or Afghan forces will, in hiswords, "become fair game."
President Barack Obama announced in May that he planned to reduce the size of the U.S.military force in Afghanistan to 9,800 by 2015. A U.S. State Department official confirmed sixmonths later that the military's combat operation in Afghanistan will end this year. But he saidthe force level announced by the president might take time to reach.
"Because of delays in the post-election government formation and the signing of theUS/Afghanistan Bilateral Security Agreement and the NATO SOFA, the force-generation effortfor the post-2014 mission is a few months behind where we had hoped to be. Butnonetheless, the United States remains confident that the Resolution Support missiontroops, to include 9,800 troops, will be in place by early 2015."
That was State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke. He says the identification and deploymentof forces from some of America's NATO allies have experienced a delay of a few months.
The Reuters news service says the United States is preparing to increase the number of troopsin Afghanistan by at least several hundred. The reason: to make up for changes in the size ofthe NATO force. Reuters says its report was based on information from three people with directknowledge of the situation.
Rear Admiral John Kirby is a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department.
"We're still having discussion with our NATO partners about Resolute Support mission, and theresources that are going to be required to execute that. As you know, it's not all an Americanposture. The 9,800 is the number that the president has authorized for the Americanpresence in Resolute Support. But that still means there's a couple of thousand or so thatneed to be provided by coalition partners. We're still in discussions with them about that."
Recently, The New York Times reported that President Obama decided to approve a moreexpansive program for the military in 2015 than planned. The newspaper said his decisionmeans U.S. troops will have direct involvement in fighting in Afghanistan for at least anotheryear. The new order reportedly enables U.S. forces to carry out operations against groupsconsidered a threat to U.S. troops or the Afghan government.
Admiral Kirby says there has been no decision to expand the duties of the troops.
"Going into 2015, we've always said there's going to be two missions for our troops goingforward. One is to support Resolute Support, which is the train, advise and assist mission, theNATO mission in Afghanistan. And the other is, of course, to continue to conductcounterterrorism operations in Afghanistan, and those will continue. Valid terrorist targets willcontinue to be prosecuted, and our troops will continue to have the right to defend themselveswhen needed."
Both The New York Times and the Associated Press reported another development. They saidthat the new Afghan president is canceling the country's ban on night-time raids. Formerpresident Hamid Karzai approved the ban because such raids were considered invasive. Night-time raids were considered an important weapon in the fight against the Taliban. |
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发表于 2016-7-28 21:08:59