2003年历年考研英语真题

SectionⅡReading ComprehensionPart A Directions:Read the following four texts.Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A],[B],[C]or [D].Mark youranswers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)Text 1Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Inter net.The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Servicesin the World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information.Donovan believed in usingwhatever tools came to hand in the "great game"of espionage-spying as a "profession."These days the Net,which hasalready re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail,is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well.The latest revolution isn't simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemen's e-mail.That kind of electronicspying has been going on for decades.In the past three or four years,the World Wide Web has given birth to a wholeindustry of point-and-click spying.The spooks call it "open source intelligence,"and as the Net grows,it is becomingincreasingly 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 theelectronic world.Among the firms making the biggest splash in the new world is Straitford,Inc.,a private intelligence-analysis firmbased in Austin,Texas.Straitford makes money by selling the results of spying (covering nations from Chile to Russia)tocorporations like energy-services firm McDermott International.Many of its predictions are available online at.Straiford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of mutually reinforcing tool for bothinformation collection and distribution,a spymaster's dream.Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from thefar comers of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine."As soon as that report runs,we'll suddenly get 500 new internetsign-ups from Ukraine,"says Friedman,a former political science professor."And we'll 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 whereStraitford earns its keep.Friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in Austin.Several of his staff members have military-intelligence backgrounds.Hesees the firm's outsider status as the key to its success.Straitford's briefs don't sound like the usual Washingtonback-and-forthing,whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong.Straitford,saysFriedman,takes pride in its independent voice.21.The emergence of the Net has[A]received support from fans like Donovan[B]remolded the intelligence services[C]restored many common pastimes[D]revived spying as a profession22.Donovan's story is mentioned in the text to[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 CIA23.The phrase"making the bigg