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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.
Donovan’s story is mentioned in the text to______.
选项 A、introduce the topic of online spying
B、show how he fought for the US
C、give an episode of the information war
D、honor his unique services to the CIA
答案A
解析 篇章结构题。本题提问作者引用多诺文例子的目的所在，解答这类问题时考生应从整段或全文的角度去思考。通常作者举例、讲故事、引用等都是为文章的主旨或段落的主题服务。其实，在篇首对多诺文的介绍只是一个导人部分，作者要谈的主题是首段末句。作者在篇首引用多诺文的故事，在接下来的第二段进一步阐述本文主旨。第二段的前两句指出，最近的变革不仅仅局限于偷看别人的电子邮件，在过去的三四年中，互联网已经衍生出了只需鼠标点击便可获得情报的新行业。随着网络的发展，该行业的影响力日益增大。作者在本段最后两句中，通过举例证明互联网给情报工作带来的好处：名为“公开来源解决方案”的小公司凭着它对电子世界的掌握，在中央情报局组织的情报收集竞赛中以绝对优势获胜。解答本题需要考生从总体上把握文章内容，全文的主旨是互联网给情报工作带来的巨大的变化。第一段以著名间谍Donovan为例，将间谍与网络联系在一起，引出文章主旨。全文都在谈论互联网的发展对情报工作的影响，并不是主要介绍多诺文这个人及他的事迹，作者只是借用他的故事来引入文章主题，其他选项都是有关多诺文这一个人的细节内容，所以均可排除。
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