2015年6月英语六级听力预热练习8

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　　英语六级听力部分算是同学们考试时的难点。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。
　　

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　　More security in the streets and outside government buildings. More checks at the airport.
　　These are among the extra precautions put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, following the attacks in Paris.
　　DHS says there is no specific threat. U.S. officials are worried, though, about the danger posed by returning foreign fighters.A senior administration official told VOA, “We're watching that phenomenon very carefully, especially as we see signs of demoralization on the battlefield in Syria and Iraq.”
　　The number of foreign fighters drawn to the conflict keeps growing. U.S. officials say there are at least 18,000 foreign fighters from around the world.
　　The Brooking Institution's Jeremy Shapiro said many are coming back. “Some 2,000 to 3,000 people have gone from Europe and the United States; the last numbers I've heard, they might be a few months old, and roughly 50 percent of them have returned.”
　　A Norwegian activist-once recruited by extremists-has seen it first hand. Yousef Bartho Assidiq said by a skype,“Most of those who come home, apart from maybe a few, they are home actually to recruit more people.”
　　An estimated 100 to 200 of the foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria are from the U.S. So far, U.S. Intelligence officials have yet to put a number on exactly how many of them have returned.