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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.
it can be learned from Para. 4 that______.
选项 A、Straitford’s prediction about Ukraine has proved true
B、Straitford guarantees the truthfulness of its information
C、Straitford’s business is characterized by unpredictability
D、Straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information
答案D
解析 推理判断题。第四段最后两句是解答本题的关键。作者先指出公开来源的情报工作存在风险，因为很难区分信息的真伪。接着笔锋一转，指出这正是斯特雷福特公司谋生之所在。由此可推测出区分信息的真伪是斯特雷福特公司的强项，即该公司能够提供相当可靠的情报。解答本题的关键在于对第四段整体内容的理解。通过本段的介绍，考生对斯特雷福特公司提供情报的具体细节有了更为直观的了解。互联网情报工作的确有它的风险，但这也正是该公司谋生之所在。斯特雷福特公司之所以能够在本行业内成为成功的典型，是因为他们能够提供相当可靠的情报。这一点可以从接下来第五段的内容中得到证实。A“该公司对于乌克兰的预测被证实是真的”属于过度推断。文中只说斯特雷福特公司作出了关于乌克兰局势的预测，大量乌克兰用户登录该公司网站，并给出回应，但文中并没有信息说明预测是否成真。B“斯特雷福特公司确保情报的真实性”的说法太绝对化，与原文意思有很大出入。从第四段最后一句可知，该公司能提供相当可靠的情报，但没有保证情报百分之百准确，从常理上说也是不可能的。C“斯特雷福特公司生意的特点是不可预测性”是对原文内容的曲解。
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