Part One
Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in 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.farewell
Among this 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
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 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 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.
1. 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.
2. Donovan's story is mentioned in the text to ________.
[A] introduce the topic of online spying.[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.
3. 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.早餐的英文
4. It can be learned from paragraph 4 that ________.
red dawn[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.
5. Straitford is most proud of its ________.
[A] official status.[B] nonconformist image.[C] efficient staff.[D] military background.
Unit 10（2003）Part 1
重点词汇：
1.spymaster 即spy+master，间谍大王、间谍组织首脑。
2.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。Worry 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。
3.lay the roots for 扎根于。
4.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）。
5.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”。
7.give birth to 分娩；产生；造成。He gave birth to a brilliant idea.他想到一个绝妙的主意。
8.spook（幽灵；间谍）可看作sp（y）+o（o）+ok→“幽灵”级的“间谍”窥探（spy）只用两只眼睛（oo）就ok了。spook —something everyone is afraid of and no one believes in 幽灵——人人害怕，却没人相信的东西。
9.intelligence（智力；情报）即intel+lig+ence，intel-即inter-（前缀，意为“在……之间”=between，因后接l，故r变形为l），lig词根意为“选择”=lect（i与e元音可替换，ct=G ←G就是由一个大C与一个小T组成的），-ence名词后缀，故“从中挑选出所需之物的能力”→智力；“从中挑选出来的东西”→情报。intelligent（聪明的）←intel+lig+ent形容词后缀；intelligible（可理解的，易懂的）←intel+lig+ible形容词后缀。
10.influential（有影响的；有权势的）即in+flu+ential，in-前缀意为“到里面”=into，flu 词根意为“流”=flow（flu作单词时意为“流感”，即“流行性感冒”），-ential形容词后缀，故“能流到心里面的”→有影响的。名词与动词形式都是influence←in+flu+ence后缀。
12.splash（n.v.溅）为拟声词。make a splash 炫耀财富；Diplomacy —the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.外交——纵身跃入麻烦而不溅起水花的艺术。
13.prediction（预言，预测）即pre+dict+ion，pre-前缀表“在前”，dict词根意为“说”，-ion名词后缀，故“在事情发生前就说的”→预言，动词为predict←pre+dict。
14.available（可用的，可得到的）。OpportUnity is available for everyone, but many of them didn't know they had met with it.人人都能得到机遇，但是不少人不知道自己遇到过它。
15.mutually（相互地）可看作mut（e）+ual+ly，mute（哑的），-ual形容词后缀，-ly副词后缀，哑巴之间说话只能靠“相互地”交换手势，形容词为mutual（相互的）。
17.distribution（分发）即dis+tribut+ion，dis-前缀“分离”=aPart，tribut词根“给”，-ion 名词后缀，故“给出去”→分发。Of great riches there is no real u, except it be in the distribution.巨大的财富除了散布，没有真正的用途。
18.dramatic（戏剧性的；引人注目的；剧烈的）即drama+tic，drama戏剧、剧本，-tic形容词后缀，表“具……性质”。
19.take pride in 以……为骄傲。
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难句解析：
①The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in World War Ⅱand later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information.
本句的主干结构是The American spymaster was fascinated with information。spymaster的后边是一个定语从句，定语从句里包含由and连接的两个并列句。
本句一共出现了三个动词，分别是built、laid和was fascinated。应该注意体会它们的逻辑关系。本句的谓语动词是was fascinated，应该首先把它找出来。built和laid处于并列关系，它们的主语是spymaster。
②The days the Net, which has already re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and nding mail, is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well.
句子的主干是the Net is reshaping Donovan's vocation。两个逗号之间是一个非限定性定语从句，用来补充说明the Net。
本句应该重点体会逗号在阅读当中的一个用法。两个逗号之间是补充说明成分时，在阅读过程中可以先跳过不读。这样的话可以较迅速地把握出该句的主干结构。naked
2011年考研英语真题huanqiu③The winner, by a large margin, was a tiny V irginia company called Open Source Solution, who
clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world.
onlinejudge本句的主干结构是The winner was a tiny Virginia company。company的后边有一个过去分词短语和一个定语从句一同修饰它。
应该重点体会company后边的修饰成分，紧随company之后的是一个过去分词短语作它的后置定语，同时还有一个who引导的定语从句，也用来限定修饰company。
④Straitford's briefs don't sound like the usual Washington back-and-forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong.
此处的whereby非常于by which、by what，即“凭什么”。所以本句的主干部分是逗号前边的部分，逗号的后边进一步补充说明。on the chance的意思是也许能够（做到某事）、希望能够（做到某事），后边频繁接that引导的从句。
本句应该重点体会whereby以及on the chance的用法。back-and-forthing在此处应译为“往来公文”。
试题解析：
这是一篇说明性的文章，介绍了互联网技术对情报行业的影响。文章第一段便指出，互联网在改变情
报行业。第二段进一步说明互联网促使了一种新的情报行业的诞生，运用互联网技术可以获取更多的情报。接下来，作者以Straitford企业为例，介绍该企业如何将网络技术运用于情报工作以及该企业的一些经营理念。整篇文章通俗易懂，虽存在个别生词，但学员可以通过上下文猜测出词义。
基于这篇文章的5道小题考查的范围覆盖了全文，既考查了学员理解具体资讯的能力，也考查了学员推测词义、推理引申的能力。5道小题难度适中。
1. 【正确答案】[B]
该小题考查的是学员是否理解了第一段内容，特别是最后一句话。
那句话是：“The days the Net, which has re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and nding mail, is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well.”。其中，“Donovan's vocation”指的就是“spying”，也就是“intelligence rvices”（情报行业）。关键在于对“reshape”一词的理解，它的含义是“改造”。
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理解了以上这两点就能选出正确答案B。其实B选项就是原文的另一种表述方法。但是，此题只有28.7％的学员选出了正确案，答对率不高。
更多的学员选择的是D。选错的缘故可能在于学员对“reshape”与“revive”的词义差别区分不清。“revive
shopping是什么意思”一词的含义是“to come or bring back into u or existence”（<；使>复兴，<；使>复活），暗含的意思是某事物已不存在或已丧失作用。第一段并没有提到间谍行业曾经消失的资讯，从第二段中我们了解到互联网推动了情报行业的成长，也没有找到任何关于情报行业曾经中断的内容，所以D选项的说法是不正确的。
C选项也不正确，关键也在于“re-make”与“restore”的差别。“restore”的含义有：（1）“bring back into existence or u”（该义项与“revive”相近）；（2）“bring back to an original condition”（恢复到过去的状态）。原文说的是，互联网改变了人们日常生活的方法，如：买书，发邮件等。人们现在可以足不出户，通过网络购书或发电子邮件。因此，无论“restore”在此取哪一种义项都与原文意思不符。
A选项也是错误的。选择A的学员对第一句话没有理解。第一句话用“would have loved”虚拟语气说，若Wild Bill Donovan还在世的话，他会爱上互联网的。可见Donovan在世的
