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For the first time, GeorgeBush has acknowledged the existence of secretCIA、prisons around the world, where key terrorist suspects—100 in all, officials say--have been interrogated with "an alternative set of procedures". Fourteen of the suspects, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11th attacks, were transferred on Monday to theAmerican naval base at GuantanamoBay inCuba, where some will face trial for war crimes before special military commissions.
Many of these men--as Mr.Bush confirmed in a televised speech at the White House on September 6th--are al-Qaeda operatives or Taliban fighters who had sought to withhold information that could "saveAmerican lives". "In these cases, it has been necessary to move these individuals to an environment where they can be held secretly (and) questioned by experts," the president saiD、He declined to say where they had been held or why they had not simply been sent straight to Guantanamo, as some 770 other suspected terrorists have been.
Mr.Bush also refused to reveal what interrogation methods had been used, saying only that, though "tough", they had been "safe and lawful and necessary". Many believe that the main purpose of theCIA’s prisons was to hide from prying eyes the torture and other cruel or degrading treatment used to extract information from prisoners.But Mr.Bush insisted thatAmerica did not torture: "It’s against our laws, and it’s against our values. I have not authorised it and I will not authorise it."
The pentagon this week issued its long-awaited newArmy Field Manual, forbidding all forms of torture and degrading treatment of prisoners by army personnel--though not theCIA、For the first time, it specifically bans forced nakedness, hooding, the Use of dogs, sexual humiliation and "waterboarding" (simulated drowning)--all practices that have been used at Guantanamo andAbu GhraiB、
So why did the president decide now to reveal theCIA’s secret programme Partly, he confessed; because of the SupremeCourt’s recent ruling that minimum protections under the GenevaConventions applied to all military prisoners, no matter where they were. This has putAmerican agents at risk of prosecution for war crimes. Mr.Bush has now askedCongress to ban suspected terrorists from suingAmerican personnel in federal courts.
In terms of literary device, the phrase "an alternative set of procedures" in the first paragraph of the text is a kind of ______.A．hyperbole
B．euphemism
C．black humor
D．stream of consciousness

网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[考点解析] 这属于一种较难的题型，测试考生对原文作者具体写作手法的识别与理解。在本文第一段第一句中，作者将an alternative set of procedures这一部分打上了双引号，其目的是回避使用过于直截了当的词语(例如：cruel, illegal, inhumane等)来描述美国中央情报局审讯恐怖主义疑犯的方式。作者的这种写作手法在文学写作上称作“委婉语”的使用，故本题的正确选项应该是B。考生在阅读时应适当把握原文作者的写作手法。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>

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