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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 phrase "making the biggest splash" (Line 1 ~2, Para. 3) most probably means
选项 A、causing the biggest trouble
B、exerting the greatest effort
C、achieving the greatest success
D、enjoying the widest popularity
答案C
解析 语义理解题。本题考查考生对短语意思的推测能力，考生可结合该短语中的关键词和上下文语境来推测。第二段最后一句提到：1995年美国中央情报局组织了一次竞赛，其中一家小公司凭借对电子世界的掌握，以巨大的优势赢得竞赛。接着第三段首句提到在网络世界中一家名为斯特雷福特的公司，结合下文可以推断出斯特雷福特一定是一家在互联网情报领域表现突出的公司，是这个领域的佼佼者，故C“获得最大的成功”为本题答案。文章在第三、四、五段谈到斯特雷福特公司。该公司是互联网情报行业的领先者，通过分析斯特雷福特公司，让读者对互联网如何帮助情报收集工作有了更直观的认识。作者在第三段介绍该公司如何将网络技术运用于情报工作以及该公司的一些经营理念，主要用来说明互联网给情报工作带来的变化和提供的前所未有的各种可能性。splash本意为“(液体的)溅落声；落水的扑通声”，其引申义为“强烈的印象；骚动”。通过上下文可知，短语making the biggest splash的意思应为“取得引人注目的成果，获得极大的成功”。A“制造最大的麻烦”是负面表达，因为第三段开头和第二段结尾之间没有转折关系，因此两部分表达的不可能是对立的观点，所以这种负面表达不会是本题答案。B“付出最大的努力”和D“受到最广泛的欢迎”虽然与上下文逻辑关系不矛盾，但我们继续读下去就会发现，文章中既没有提到该公司是如何努力的，也未提到该公司的知名度或大家是否喜欢它，因此两者均不是答案。
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