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The exponentially improving capabilities of emerging Web technologies spotlights the long-ignored issues of who owns the World W

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问题     The exponentially improving capabilities of emerging Web technologies spotlights the long-ignored issues of who owns the World Wide Web, who manages it, and who has jurisdiction over it. The answer now is: Nobody! Another reasonable prediction would be that the Internet will become not only the number-one means of communicating, conducting business, socializing, entertaining, and just living, but indeed will handle a huge majority of such interactions; thus, failure to establish and enforce some basic ground rules will likely lead to socioeconomic disaster.
    If exchange of resources is to be accomplished almost exclusively over the Internet, anonymous surfing will be a potential threat. Moving funds without identification could not only perpetrate individual fraud, but also bankrupt the system itself. Biometrics and more-advanced systems of ID will need to be perfected to protect users and the network. In addition, multinational cybercrime units will be required to catch those preying on users worldwide, as Web surfers in Arlington, Virginia, and Victoria, British Columbia, may be victims of cyberscams perpetrated in Cairo or Budapest. Coordination and cooperation will be keys to making the Internet a safer place to travel and conduct business.
    The future path through cyberspace is filled with threats and opportunities, most of which cannot even be imagined today. With the equivalent of 5,000 years of technological progress expected between 2000 and 2025, it’s difficult to forecast the dilemmas that lie ahead, but thanks to the creativity and genius of William Gibson, Ray Kurzweil, and others like them, some predictions have been made and can be used as a basis for forecasting future cybercrime and crime fighting.
    The Internet as we know it—computers, Web sites, e-mail, blogs, e-commerce, etc.—may be outdated as soon as the early years of the next decade(the "twenty-teens"). All communication will be handled by a seamless, wireless network of airborne signals moving between nanobots and individuals with transmitters implanted in them. At this point, cyberoffenses will become very personal, as an attack on the Web is a direct attack on the user-possibly even invading his brain and memory stored in neural networks.
    By 2025, the whole concept of the Internet and cybercrime may be dumped into the dustbin of history. The greatest threat then might be the extreme difficulty of separating virtual(cyber)reality from physical reality. Already, psychologists warn that perception can be more important than truth: If cyberreality is more convincing than physical reality, the virtual world might become the "real" world.
The multinational cybercrime units are most probably in charge of______.
选项 A、investigation of international on-line crime
B、those who prey on ATM users
C、cyberscams in developing countries
D、crackers of advanced ID systems
答案A
解析 属细节推断题。第二段第四句通过举例对multinational cybercrime units进行了解释，仔细阅读后可知选项A符合题意。选项B犯了偷梁换柱的错误，将原文加上了ATM，迷惑考生，故错误。选项C并不全面，虽然例子讲到的两个城市都在发展中国家，但其职责并不只是针对发展中国家的网络犯罪，故错误。选项D犯了移花接木的错误，是对原文内容的拼凑，故错误。
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