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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". The days the Net, which has already re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and nding mail, is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well.
The latest 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 e who could compile the most data about Burundi. The winner, by a large margin, was a tiny Virginia company called Open Source Solutions, who clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world.
聚会的英文 Among the firms making the biggest splash in this new world is Straitford, Inc., a private intelligence-analysis firm bad in Austin, Texas. Straitford makes money by lling the results of spying (covering nations from Chile to Russia) to corporations like energy-rvices firm McDermott International. Many of its predictions are available online at
Straiford president George Friedman says he es 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 cour, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. That's where Straitford earns its keep.
Friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in Austin. Several of his staff members have militar
y-intelligence backgrounds. He es 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.
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41. The emergence of the Net has ________.
[A] received support from fans like Donovan
[B] remolded the intelligence rvices
[C] restored many common pastimes howold
傲慢与偏见读后感英文
[D] revived spying as a profession
42. Donovan's story is mentioned in the text to ________.
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[A] introduce the topic of online spying
[B] show how he fought for the US
[C] give an episode of the information war
[D] honor his unique rvices to the CIA
43. The phra "making the biggest splash" (line 1, paragraph 3) most probably means ________.
[A] causing the biggest trouble
蒙汉情深何忍别天涯碧草话斜阳翻译 [B] exerting the greatest effort
[C] achieving the greatest success
[D] enjoying the widest popularity
44. It can be learned from paragraph 4 that ________.
[A] Straitford's prediction about Ukraine has proved true usually什么意思
[B] Straitford guarantees the truthfulness of its information
[C] Straitford's business is characterized by unpredictability
[D] Straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information
45. Straitford is most proud of its ________.
[A] official status
zyk [B] nonconformist image
[C] efficient staff
[D] military background
重点词汇：
spymaster my147 即spy+master，间谍大王、间谍组织首脑。
strategic （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 global strategy 全球战略。Wor
ry more about implementation than strategy — it's harder to do.更多地为贯彻落实而非战略本身操心——这样做更难。
the whole story
lay the roots for 扎根于。
fascinate （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 beauty.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 （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 （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 reformation省略了makes。另如培根的名句：Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.阅读使人充实，讨论使人机敏，写作使人精确。）Folds ud to be willing to wait patiently for a slow-moving stage coach, but now they kick like the dickens if they miss one revolution of a revolving door.过去人们一向乐于耐心等待慢吞吞的公共马车，可现在若错过旋转门的一次旋转，他们就乱踢一气。revolution — ①an injustice that rves to replace as soon as possible the injustice of yesterday by the injustice of tomorrow ②the tting-up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one 革命——①能够促进尽快用明天的非正义取代昨天的非正义的一种非正义 ②建立一种与传统秩序相反的新秩序。Religions revolve madly round xual questions.种种宗教都围绕着两性问题疯狂地打转。
