When Donald arrived for his first group-therapy session he was in a wheelchair, suffering

Mr. Howard held informal talks about terrorism, Iraq and Afghani stan with US Vice President Dick Cheney at the weekend and is expected to build on those discussions when he meets Mr. Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.

The prime minister arrived in Washington last Friday but has kept a fairly low profile throughout the weekend in order to catch up with his youngest son Richard, currently living in the US capital.

But today his schedule speeds up with talks with Mr. Rumsfeld, US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and a major speech to the In ternational Democratie Union, an organization of about 70 conservative, Christian Democrat and other centre-right political parties from around the world.

Mr. Howard plans to use his speech to praise Indonesia and Iraq for their push towards democracy.

"Indonesia is now the third largest democracy in the world and it's a point that I will be making in the speech I deliver," he told reporters.

"I'll (also) certainly be talking about the extraordinary courage of the Iraqi people in defying violence and intimidation and threats of death in order to embrace democracy. It's one of the more inspiring democratic stories of the last few years."

Meanwhile, Mr. Howard's wife Janette is planning to present an Australian diamond to the Smithsonian Museum.

According to the news items, Prime Minister John Howard plans to talk with all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A．US Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld

B．US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan

C．US President George W. Bush

D．US Vice President Dick Cheney

When did the first Donald Duck film appear？

A．In 1933

B．In 1934

C．In 1966

D．In 1965

A.gender

B.age

C.Party

D.ethnic group

A.Step 1-They say…

B.Step 2-But I say…

C.Step 3-Because…

D.Step 4-Therefore…

Perhaps it will be a long while _________Donald comes back from New York. Don't wait

for him.

[A] when

[B]that

[C] since

[D] before

When it was time to go home, both Joan and Donald were too drunk to drive.

A.到了回家的时间，琼和唐纳德都喝了酒，不能驾驶。

B.到了回家的时间，琼和唐纳德两人都太醉了，以至于无法开车。

C.到了回家的时间，琼和唐纳德两人都喝醉了，但还要开车。

1 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN Thursday, May 13, 2004) -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Thursday arrived in the Iraqi capital on a surprise visit to rally U.S. troops, but denied his agenda was to calm the storm over prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.

2 "If anybody thinks that I'm [in Iraq] to throw water on a fire, they're wrong," Rumsfeld told reporters on board his flight to Iraq.

3 "We care about the detainees being treated fight. We care about soldiers behaving right. We care about command systems working."

4 Rumsfeld was accompanied by Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a team of Pentagon attorneys, sources involved in planning the trip told CNN.

5 Rumsfeld and Myers will meet with top coalition officials in Iraq. For security reasons, details of their schedules are being kept secret. It is Rumsfeld's fifth visit to Iraq - his last trip coming on February 23.

6 Seven soldiers face criminal charges in the abuse case, and three of them have been formally referred for court-martial. Investigations into the mistreatment continue.

7 Meanwhile, photos of the alleged abuse have prompted outrage - particularly in the Arab world - and led to days of hearings on Capitol Hill.

8 The Army has been investigating the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib since January, but the case erupted last month when CBS broadcast graphic photographs of American troops posing for photographs with naked, hooded prisoners.

9 Rumsfeld has been strongly criticized for not alerting the president and Congress earlier about the pictures.

10 Lawmakers are focusing on how high up the chain of command culpability for the abuse goes.

11 while Rumsfeld and other Pentagon officials have described the abuse as an aberration, some lawmakers have suggested in their questions that the military police - who acted as guards for the prisoners - may have been taking their cues from military intelligence.

12 The author of a military report on Abu Ghraib, Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, has also questioned the role of military intelligence at the prison. But he told a Senate panel Tuesday that there were no "direct orders" or written policies that sanctioned the abuse of prisoners.

13 Meanwhile, Iraqi captors who recently beheaded American Nicholas Berg, 26 - an act captured on videotape by those who held him - said the killing was in part a response to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghralb.

Rumsfeld claimed that he came to Iraq to ______.

A．calm the storm over prisoner abuse

B．rally U.S. troops

C．escape censure at Home

D．replace top coalition officials

Hardly ______ when the door suddenly closed.

A. they had arrived

B. they arrived

C. did they arrive

D. had they arrived