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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.
如果Wild Bill Donovan 当时有互联网的话他肯定会喜欢网络的。这位美国间谍大王对情报格外着迷，他曾经在第二次世界大战时建立了战略服务办公室，后来又为中央情报局的成立打下了基础。Donovan 相信，在谍报的“伟大游戏”当中，即间谍这一“职业”当中，可以使用任何可利用的手段。如今，互联网已经改变了像买书和寄信这样的日常活动，也正在改变Donovan曾经从事的这个职业。
注：其实espionage 和 spying是一个意思，spying是对espionage的解释，espionage主要用于政府军事公司团体，相对正式些，可以翻译成“谍报”；spying是普通用法，主要指公
司或个人，所以可以译为“间谍”，“密探”均可。
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.
最近的这次革命性的改变不仅仅是一个人偷看他人电子邮件的问题，这样的电子间谍活动已经存在了数十年。在过去的三四年中，国际互联网已经催生出一个可称为点击间谍的完整产业。间谍们把它称为“开源情报”（直译为：“公开来源情报”）。随着互联网的增长，这样的情报变得越来越有影响力。1995年中央情报局举办了一个竞赛，看谁能够收集到关于“布隆迪”的最多信息。以绝对优势获胜的是来自弗吉尼亚的一家小公司，名为“公开来源解决方案”，它的明显优势是它对电子世界的精通。
注： 所谓开源情报是指通过对公开的信息或其它资源进行分析后所得到的情报。
Among the firms making the biggest splash in the 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 我的家乡梵净山.
在这些公司中，引起这一新领域最大轰动的是一个叫Straitford的公司，它是得克萨斯州奥斯汀市的一个私人情报分析公司。它通过向诸如“McDermott 国际”这样的能源公司出售情报来赚钱（情报涉及包括从智利到俄罗斯等许多国家）。它的许多预测可以到在线查到。
Straitford 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 Int
ernet 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.
该公司的总裁一个雨一个林George Friedman 说，他把网络世界视为情报收集和情报发布两方面相互增强的工具，这是间谍头目的梦想。上周，他的公司正在从远在世界的另一角落收集零散的信息，并预测到乌克兰将发生一场危机。“一旦这个报道发布，我们会从乌克兰突然新增500个浏览用户，”Friedman ，一位前政治学教授说，“我们将得到他们某些人的反馈。”当然公开来源的间谍活动的确有它的风险，因为区分真假信息是非常困难的。（但）这正是 Straitford 公司盈利的地方。
Friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in Austin. Several of his staff members have military-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.
在奥斯汀市，Friedman依靠的是为数不多的20名职员。他的职员当中有好几个人具有军事情报工作背景。他把公司的“局外人”地位视为其成功的关键。Straitford公司的简报听上去不像华盛顿（官方）那样措辞谨慎，这是因为（官方）机构要避免贸然之言，以免言之有误。Friedman说，Straitford公司因其独立的声音而感到自豪。
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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.
[D] revived spying as a profession.
网络的出现已经__________。
[A] 得到了像多诺汶这样的网迷的支持 [B] 改变了情报服务的方式
[C] 恢复了许多普通的消遣活动 [D] 复兴了间谍行业
42. Donovan’s story is mentioned in the text to __________.
[A] introduce the topic of online spying. 短头发怎么扎好看
[B] show how he fought for the U.S.
[C] give an episode of the information war.
[D] honor his unique rvices to the CIA
文章中提到多诺汶故事的目的在于__________。
[A] 引出网上间谍活动这个话题 [B] 说明他如何为美国而战斗
[C] 举出信息战的一段插曲 [D] 赞扬他为中央情报局做出的特殊贡献
43. The phra “making the biggest splash” (line 1, paragraph 3)most probably means __________.
[A] causing the biggest trouble. [B] exerting the greatest effort.
[C] achieving the greatest success. [D] enjoying the widest popularity.
“making the biggest splash”（第三段第一行）这个词语的意思可能是__________。
[A] 造成最大的麻烦 [B] 尽最大的努力
[C] 取得最大的成功 [D] 受到最广泛的欢迎
44. It can be learned from paragraph 4 that __________.
员工流失[A] Straitford’s prediction about Ukraine has proved true.
[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.
可以从第四段中了解到__________。
[A] Straitford公司关于乌克兰的预言被证明是正确的
[B] Straitford保证了其信息的真实性
[C] Straitford的业务具有不可预测的特点
梅花的外形[D] Straitford能够提供比较可靠的信息
45. Straitford is most proud of its __________.
[A] official status. 抽动综合症[B] nonconformist image.
[C] efficient staff. [D] military background.
Straitford公司最为自豪的是其__________。
[A] 官方地位 [B] 不墨守成规的形象
[C] 高效的员工 [D] 军事背景
