大学英语四级考试简答题最后一周冲刺训练_大学英语阅读

大学英语四级考试简答题最后一周冲刺训练

　　During the past few weeks，newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic have revealed in breathless terms the latest plan to invade Iraq.

　　They have described massive thrusts by armour from all sides;airborne attacks to take out Baghdad;vast seaborne raids. Saddam Hussein，according to one version，will be removed by dissidents inserted into Iraq backed by US Special Forces. Alternatively，Saddam will be taken out in a precision strike.

　　Civilian officials in the Bush administration have huffed and puffed about the leaks，to the amusement of the intelligence and military professionals. One thing you can say with an awful lot of certainty，one told The Observer newspaper in London last week，is that there is going to be an awful lot of deception going on over the next few months.

　　Deception is one of the oldest of the militarys black arts. But the fact of the existence of deception is important in itself. It is，in the terminology of these things，a combat indicator-one of the clues that suggest things are fast on the road to getting bloody.

　　And not all of it is necessarily deception. There have been other signs suggesting a campaign against Iraq. Manufacturers of cruise missiles and precision-guided munitions in the US have been working overtime to replace the weapons expended in Afghanistan. The American military transport fleet of trucks has been ordered in for rapid servicing and camouflaging. Elsewhere，US fighting vehicles in Kuwait have been taken out of mothballs where they were left at the end of the Gulf War.