参考答案：对

解析：[听力原文] The United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said it is too soon to know whether the recent deployment of thousands of additional American soldiers to Iraq is helping to quell sectarian violence. Mr. Gates says it will probably be several months before the Americans knew whether they were succeeding.[难点] 该题不难。稍微关注时事都知道伊拉克的现状。