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1、2003 Text 1Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in the World War 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 sp
2、ying as a profession. These days the Net, which has already re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovans vocation as well. The latest revolution isnt simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemens e-mail. That kind of electronic spying has been going
3、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 m
4、ost 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 this new world is Straitford, Inc., a private intelligence-analysis firm based
5、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 . Straiford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as
6、a kind of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymasters 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, well suddenly get 500 new Internet sign-ups
7、from Ukraine, says Friedman, a former political science professor. And well 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. Thats where Straitford earns its keep. Friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in Aus
8、tin. Several of his staff members have military-intelligence backgrounds. He sees the firms outsider status as the key to its success. Straitfords briefs dont sound like the usual Washington back-and-forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong. Straitford
9、, 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 42. Donovans story is mentioned in the text to _.A introduce the t
10、opic of online spying B show how he fought for the US C give an episode of the information war D honor his unique services to the CIA 43. The phrase making the biggest splash (line 1, paragraph 3) most probably means _.A causing the biggest trouble B exerting the greatest effort C achieving the grea
11、test success D enjoying the widest popularity 44. It can be learned from paragraph 4 that _.A Straitfords prediction about Ukraine has proved true B Straitford guarantees the truthfulness of its information C Straitfords business is characterized by unpredictability D Straitford is able to provide f
12、airly reliable information 45. Straitford is most proud of its _.A official status B nonconformist image C efficient staff D military background 重点词汇：spymaster /5spai7mB:stE/ 即spy+master，间谍大王、间谍组织首脑。strategic /strE5ti:dVik/ （战略的；对全局起关键作用的）为strategy（战略，策略）的形容词形式，-ic为形容词后缀。strategy and tactics 战略与战术；a
13、 global strategy 全球战略。Worry more about implementation than strategy its harder to do.更多地为贯彻落实而非战略本身操心这样做更难。lay the roots for 扎根于。fascinate /5fAsineit/ （使着迷，强烈地吸引），去e加名词后缀-ion即为fascination（入迷；诱惑力），去e加形容词后缀-ing即为fascinating（迷人的），另可记fascism（法西斯主义），fascist（法西斯主义的；法西斯主义者）。He was fascinated with her beaut
14、y.他被她的美貌迷住了。Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.法西斯主义是一种宗教；二十世纪将作为法西斯主义世纪而载入史册。据说这句话是墨索里尼说的。espionage /5espiEnidV, 5espiEnB:V/ （间谍活动）即esp(i)+ion+age，espi即espy（窥探e-=ex-出来+spy窥探），-ion与-age皆名词后缀，表“活动”。revolution /7revE5lu:FEn/ （革命；旋转）是revolve（使旋转）的名词形式，“旋转”入“革命”的漩涡。revolve即re+volve，re-反复，volve词根“卷”，于是“反复卷”旋转。The heart makes a revolution, the head a reformation.感情造就革命，理智形成改革。（the head a reformatio
