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Don’t talk: your cell phone may be eaves-dropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself playe

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问题     Don’t talk: your cell phone may be eaves-dropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself player can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone. The programs are inexpensive, and the transfer requires no special skill. The would-be spy needs to get his hands on your phone to press keys authorizing the download, but it takes just a few minutes—about the time needed to download a ringtone.
    This new generation of user-friendly spy-phone software has become widely available in the last year—and it confers stunning powers. The latest programs can silently turn on handset microphones even when no call is being made, allowing a spy to listen to voices in a room halfway around the world. Targets are none the wiser: neither call logs nor phone bills show records of the secretly transmitted data.
    More than 200 companies sell spy-phone software online, at prices as low as $50 (a few programs cost more than $30O). Vendors are loath to release sales figures. But some experts—private investigators and consultants in counter-wiretapping, computer-security software and telecommunications market research— claim that a surprising number of people carry a mobile that has been compromised, usually by a spouse, lover, parent or co-worker. Many employees, experts say, hope to discover a supervisor’s dishonest dealings and tip off the top boss anonymously. Max Maiellaro, head of Agata Christie Investigation, a private-investigation firm in Milan, estimates that 3 percent of mobiles in France and Germany are tapped, and about 5 percent or so in Greece, Italy, Romania and Spain. James Atkinson, a spy-phone expert at Granite Island Group, a security consultancy in Gloucester, Massachusetts, puts the number of tapped phones in the U.S. at 3 percent. (These approximations do not take into account government wiretapping.) Even if these numbers are inflated, clearly many otherwise law-abiding citizens are willing to break wiretapping laws.
    Spyware thrives on iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones because they have ample processing power. In the United States, the spread of GSM networks, which are more vulnerable than older technologies, has also enlarged the pool of potential victims. Spyware being developed for law-enforcement agencies will accompany a text message and automatically install itself in the victim’s phone when the message is opened, according to an Italian developer who declined to be identified. One worry is that the software will find its way into the hands of criminals.
    The current predicament is partly the result of decisions by Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion (producer of the BlackBerry) to open their phones to outside application-software developers, which created the opening for spyware. Antivirus and security programs developed for computers require too much processing power, even for smart phones. Although security programs are available for phones, by and large users haven’t given the threat much thought. If the spying keeps spreading, that may change soon.
By saying "that may change soon" (Last sentence, Para. 5), the author means________.
选项 A、manufacturers may become more devoted to developing security programs
B、manufactures may stop opening their phones to other software
C、customers may choose the phones with less processing power
D、customers may consider installing security programs in their phones
答案D
解析 本题关键词就是双引号内的句子，属于句意题，定位到第五段。根据第五段第三、四句，尽管手机也可以安装安全程序，但总的来说，用户对这种威胁并不太在意(haven’t given the threat much thought)。如果间谍程序继续传播，这种情形也许就会很快改变(that may change soon)。由此可以推断，that：指代的是“用户不在意安全方面的威胁”，因此“情形改变”就意味着“顾客或许会考虑在他们的手机上安装安全程序”，所以选项D与原文是相同含义，是正确答案。选项A属于主观推导。从第五段并不能推断出。选项B和C属于曲解文意，该题主要问的是that指代的内容，第五段最后两句与这两项的内容毫无关系，故排除。
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