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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]

本題的對應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，互聯網已經改變了像買書和寄信這樣的日常活動，也正在改變多諾汶曾經從事的這個職業），而多諾汶的職業就是espionage，或者說是spying as a profession。四個選項中只有B選項符合文章原意，其中reshape與remold是同義詞，而espionage與intelligence services是同義詞，因而B是正確答案。A選項與原文意思不符，因此從文章第一句"Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet"（比爾·多諾汶肯定會喜歡網絡），would have 這個虛擬語氣的表達說明多諾汶對網絡并不知曉。C選項中的restore與re-made意思正好相反，是錯誤選項。D選項中revive也與reshape意思相左。

[題目譯文]

網絡的出現已經             。
[A] 得到了像多諾汶這樣的網迷的支持
[B] 改變了情報服務的方式
[C] 恢復了許多普通的消遣活動
[D] 復興了諜報行業

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]

本題的對應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"（司特雷福公司的簡報聽上去不像華盛頓那樣總是閃爍其辭，政府機構往往避免發布引人注目的言論，因為這些言論可能會出錯。弗萊德曼說，司特雷福公司為其獨立的聲音而感到自豪）。其中B選項non-conformist可以說是對independent voice的解讀，因而是正確答案。公司不是官方機構，顯然A選項錯誤。而原文并沒有強調員工的效率，因此C選項可以排除。D選項的錯誤在于公司有一些員工具有軍隊情報服務的背景，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] 不墨守成規的形象
[C] 高效的員工
[D] 軍事北京