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听力原文： Several hundred people have joined a protest near U. S. President George W. Bush's holiday ranch in Texas to demonstrate against the war in Iraq. The two-week-old protest-organized by Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq last year, is being held to call for the withdrawal of the 138,000 U. S. troops deployed there. Cindy Sheehan's 24-year-old son was killed in Baghdad on April 4, 2004, who is among the 1,829 American troops, including 31 this month, who have died in Iraq since the U. S. -led invasion in March 2003. The president--who is spending a nearly five-week-long working vacation at his Texas ranch--said in a speech Wednesday that the sacrifices of U. S. troops were "made in a noble cause. "Bush, who said he sympathizes with Sheehan, has made no indication that he will meet with her.
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听力原文： In his radio address on Saturday, Bush warned that there is likely to be more tough fighting to come in Iraq. The president urged Americans to share their confidence in a positive outcome to the war. And he told radio listeners his aim is to defeat members of Saddam Hussein's former regime and foreign and Iraqi terrorists and criminals responsible for the violence. At the same time, the United States is helping train Iraqi security forces so U. S. troops can eventually return home. Bush again turned aside calls in Congress and elsewhere for him to set a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops.
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听力原文： Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on Sunday announced their countries should refuse any support for military action against fellow Arab Iraq. But their call fell short of a binding resolution that would pose difficulties for many Gulf states, which host thousands of U. S. troops preparing for possible war on Iraq over its alleged weapons of mass destruction. Iraq denies it has such arms. Speculation has been rife that Arab leaders had asked Saddam to go into exile to spare the region a devastating war, but officials have denied it and few Arabs believe that the Iraqi leader would step down. Some Arab officials have said that high-level negotiations were being held to persuade Washington to grant amnesty to Saddam's top commanders, partly to encourage them to overthrow him in a coup.
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