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Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in the World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information. Donovan believed in using whatever tools came to hand in the "great game" of espionage-----spying as a "profession." These days the Net, which has already re-made pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well.
The last revolution isn't simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemen's e-mail. That kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades. In the past three or four years, the world wide web has given birth to a whole industry of point-and-click spying. The spooks call it "open source intelligence," and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential. in 1995 the CIA held a contest to see who could compile the most data about Burundi. The winner, by a large margin, was a tiny Virginia company called Open-Source Solutions，whose clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world.
Among the firms making the biggest splash in the new world is Straitford, Inc., a private intelligence-analysis firm based in Austin, Texas. Straitford makes money by selling the results of spying (covering nations from Chile to Russia) to corporations like energy-services firm McDermott International. Many of its predictions are available online at http://www.straitford.com/.
Straifford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymaster's dream. Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine." As soon as that report runs, we'll suddenly get 500 new internet sign-ups from Ukraine," says Friedman, a former political science professor. "And we'll hear back from some of them." Open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. That's where Straitford earns its keep.
Friedman relies on a lean staff in Austin. Several of his staff members have military-intelligence backgrounds. He sees the firm's outsider status as the key to its success. Straitford's briefs don't sound like the usual Washington back-and forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong. Straitford, says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice.
41. The emergence of the Net has
[A] received support from fans like Donovan.
[B] remolded the intelligence services.
[C] restored many common pastimes.
[D] revived spying as a profession.
[答案] B
[解題思路]
本題的對(duì)應(yīng)信息在文章第一段的最后一句話"These days the Net, which has already re-made pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well"（如今，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)已經(jīng)改變了像買書(shū)和寄信這樣的日常活動(dòng)，也正在改變多諾汶曾經(jīng)從事的這個(gè)職業(yè)），而多諾汶的職業(yè)就是espionage，或者說(shuō)是spying as a profession。四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中只有B選項(xiàng)符合文章原意，其中reshape與remold是同義詞，而espionage與intelligence services是同義詞，因而B(niǎo)是正確答案。A選項(xiàng)與原文意思不符，因此從文章第一句"Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet"（比爾·多諾汶肯定會(huì)喜歡網(wǎng)絡(luò)），would have 這個(gè)虛擬語(yǔ)氣的表達(dá)說(shuō)明多諾汶對(duì)網(wǎng)絡(luò)并不知曉。C選項(xiàng)中的restore與re-made意思正好相反，是錯(cuò)誤選項(xiàng)。D選項(xiàng)中revive也與reshape意思相左。
[題目譯文]
網(wǎng)絡(luò)的出現(xiàn)已經(jīng) 。
[A] 得到了像多諾汶這樣的網(wǎng)迷的支持
[B] 改變了情報(bào)服務(wù)的方式
[C] 恢復(fù)了許多普通的消遣活動(dòng)
[D] 復(fù)興了諜報(bào)行業(yè)
45. Straitford is most proud of its
[A] official status.
[B] nonconformist image.
[C] efficient staff.
[D] military background.
[答案] B
[解題思路]
本題的對(duì)應(yīng)信息在文章最后一段的最后一句話"Straitford's briefs don't sound like the usual Washington back-and forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong. Straitford, says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice"（司特雷福公司的簡(jiǎn)報(bào)聽(tīng)上去不像華盛頓那樣總是閃爍其辭，政府機(jī)構(gòu)往往避免發(fā)布引人注目的言論，因?yàn)檫@些言論可能會(huì)出錯(cuò)。弗萊德曼說(shuō)，司特雷福公司為其獨(dú)立的聲音而感到自豪）。其中B選項(xiàng)non-conformist可以說(shuō)是對(duì)independent voice的解讀，因而是正確答案。公司不是官方機(jī)構(gòu)，顯然A選項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。而原文并沒(méi)有強(qiáng)調(diào)員工的效率，因此C選項(xiàng)可以排除。D選項(xiàng)的錯(cuò)誤在于公司有一些員工具有軍隊(duì)情報(bào)服務(wù)的背景，但這并不意味著該公司有軍事背景，它只是一家民營(yíng)私人公司。
[題目譯文]
司特雷福公司最為自豪的是其 。
[A] 官方地位
[B] 不墨守成規(guī)的形象
[C] 高效的員工
[D] 軍事北京
