U.S. gov't rejects Iraq audit report

考研网

英语阅读是考研英语的重头戏，怎么复习?怎么训练?建议同学们采取英语朗读的方法每天练习10-20分钟，快速提升英语的阅读能力和听力水平！
                        Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government on Thursday flatly rejected a draft report by U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that said Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18congressionally mandated benchmarks.
    White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the report set the bar too high for Iraq and it will be impossible for the Iraqis to meet the GAO's standards.
    She was echoed by State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey, who told reporters that "if you apply different standards to the benchmarks you might come out with some different conclusions."
    In Pentagon, Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell said officials at his department disputed some findings of the GAO report and made some "factual corrections" to it.
    The strikingly negative GAO report, which will be delivered to Congress in final form next Tuesday, comes as the White House prepares to deliver its own new benchmark report in the second week of September, along with congressional testimony from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker.
    The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, normally submits its draft reports to relevant agencies for comment but makes its own final judgments.
    The office has published more than 100 assessments of various aspects of the U.S. effort in Iraq since May 2003.
               
            听力和书面表达通常是我们学生的弱项，希望大家在英语朗读的方法下，并结合实际情况安排练习，不要一味模仿别人，要在练习过程中及时总结经验，包括时间安排等，让自己的考研英语水平得到一个很大的提升！