大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）模拟题2019年(32)
(总分710,考试时间130分钟)
Part III Reading Comprehension
Section B清晰造句
肉饼汤 How the CIA Works
[A]Despite plenty of Hollywood films about the CIA and its spies, many people still don't know what the agency actually does. The CIA stands for the Central Intelligence Agency. Its primary stated mission is to collect, evaluate and spread foreign intelligence to assist the president and nior United States government policymakers in making decisions about national curity. The CIA may also engage in covert(秘密的)action at the president's request. It doesn't make policy. It isn't allowed to spy on the domestic activities of Americans or to participate in assassinations, either— though it has been accud of doing both.
[B]The CIA reports both to the executive and legislative branches. During the CIA's history, the amount of oversight has ebbed and flowed. On the executive side, the CIA must answer to three groups—the National Security Council, the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Intelligence Oversight Board.
CIA History
[C]The United States has always engaged in foreign intelligence activities. Covert action aided the patriots in winning the Revolutionary War. But the first formal, organized agencies didn't exist until the 1880s, when the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Army's Military Intelligence Division were created. Around World War I, the Bureau of Investigation(the forerunner of the FBI)took over intelligence-gathering duties. The intelligence structure continued through veral repetitions. For example, the Office of Strategic Services, known as the OSS, was established in 1942 and abolished in 1945.
[D]After World War II, U.S. leaders struggled with how to improve national intelligence. The Pearl Harbor bombing, which brought the United States into World War II, was consi十一月英文缩写>我和我的祖国乐谱
dered a major intelligence failure.
[E]In 1947, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, which created the CIA. The act also created a director of central intelligence, who had three different roles: the president's principal advir on curity issues, the head of the entire U.S. **munity and the head of the CIA, one of the agencies within that **munity. This structure was revid in 2004, with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which created the position of director of national intelligence to overe the **munity. Now, the director of the CIA reports to the director of national intelligence.环保的重要性
[F]Two years later, Congress pasd the Central Intelligence Agency Act, which allows the agency to keep its budget and staffing cret. For many years, the agency's primary mission was to protect the United States **munism and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The days, the agency has an even **plex job—to protect the United States from terrorist threats from all over the globe.
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CIA Structure
[G]The CIA is broken down into four different teams, each with its own responsibilities. National Clandestine Service is where the so-called "spies" work. NCS employees go undercover abroad to collect foreign intelligence. They recruit agents to collect what is called "human intelligence." What kinds of people work for the NCS? NCS employees are generally well-educated, know other languages, like to work with people from all over the world and can adapt to any situation, including dangerous ones. Most people, including their friends and family members, will never know exactly what NCS employees do. Later we'll take a look at how the spies stay undercover and check out some of their cool gadgets.
[H]The people on Directorate of Science and Technology team collect overt, or open source, intelligence. Overt intelligence consists of information that appears on TV, on the radio, in magazines or in newspapers. They also u electronic and satellite photography. This team usually recruits people who enjoy science and engineering.
[I]All of the information gathered by the first two teams is turned over to the Directorate
of Intelligence. Members of this team interpret the information and write reports about it. A DI employee must have excellent writing and analytical skills, be comfortable prenting information in front of groups and be able to handle deadline pressure.
职场爱情小说 [J]Directorate of Support team provides support for the rest of the organization and handles things like hiring and training. "The Directorate of Support attracts the person who may be a specialist in a field such as an artist or a finance officer, or a generalist with many different talents," according to the CIA Web site. 美丽夏天
Spy Stuff
[K]About a third of the agency's estimated 20, 000 employees are undercover or have been at some point in their CIA careers, according to a Los Angeles Times story, which explored just how they keep tho covers.
