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The Internet Remade Spying Profession Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the

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问题                     The Internet Remade Spying Profession
    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".These days the Net, which has already remade such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovan’s vocation as well.
    The last 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 see who could compile the most 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 the new world is Straitford, Inc. , a private intelligence analysis firm based 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 www. straitford. corn.
    Straitford president George Friedman says he sees 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’ II suddenly get 500 new Internet sign ups from Ukraine," says Friedman, a former political science professor. "And we’ II 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. That’s where Straitford earns its keep.
The emergence of the Net has______.
选项 A、received support from fans like Donovan
B、remolded the intelligence services
C、restored many common pastimes
D、revived spying as a profession
答案B
解析 事实细节题。根据题干中的关键词the Net定位至第一段最后一句，从该段第二句我们知道多诺文是美国间谍组织首脑，因此Donovan’s vocation用来代指spying，即intelligence services(情报行业)。这里关键在于对reshaping的理解，它的含义是“改造，重塑”，基于以上两点本题选B。第一段以著名间谍Donovan为例引出文章主旨。第一句将间谍与网络联系在一起，设下悬念。第二、三句加深悬念并引出“情报业”这一关键词。最后一句点明主旨：互联网给情报工作带来巨大变化。解答本题需要考生从总体上把握第一段的内容。本题涉及对第一段最后一句的理解。最后一句谈到，互联网已经改变了人们的日常活动，同时也在改变着多诺文的职业。而选项B中的remolded(改造，重塑)同remade，reshape意思相近，因此本选项正是文章主旨句的同义转述。A“得到了诸如多诺文等网迷们的支持”是针对该段第一句设计的干扰项。该句中使用虚拟语气(would have loved)，表示如果王尔德·比尔·多诺文还在世的话，他肯定会喜欢互联网。可见多诺文在世的时候并没有互联网，后面的几句也能证明这一点。C“恢复了许多日常的消遣”是对原文内容的曲解。第一段最后一句提到．．．which has already remade such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail．这里remade的含义是“改变”，即互联网改变了人们日常生活的方式，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，并非restored(恢复)之意。D“使情报业得到复兴”具有很强的干扰性，这里将原文中的reshaping偷换成revived。revive的含义是“复兴，复活”，暗含的意思是某事物已不存在或已丧失作用，而reshape意为“改造”。第一段中并没有提到情报行业曾经中断，因而谈不上“复兴”，所以D不正确。
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