2003年考研英语—真题与答案
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2003 年考研英语真题及答案
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Wild Bill Donovan would haveovedl the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Servicesni
the World War Ⅱ and aterl aidl the roots for the CIAwas fascinated with information. Donovan believed in using whatever
tools came tohand in the "great game"of espionage— spying as a "profession".These days the Net, which has already re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sendingreshapingmail, Donovan's vocation as .well The atestl revolutionsn'ti simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemen's e-mail. That kind ofectronicel spying
has been going on for decades. In the past three or four years, orldthe Wide Web has given birth to a whole industry of
point-and-click spying. The spooks call it "open-sourceintelligence",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, byargel
margin, was a tiny Virginia company called Open Source Solutions, whosearcl advantage was its mastery of theectroniel world.
Among the firms making the biggestashpl in this new world is Straitford, Inc., a private intelligence-analysifirm 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 . Straiford presidentGeorge Friedman says he sees the online world as kinda of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymaster's dream. Last sweekfirm hiwas 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'llsuddenly get 500 new
Internet sign-ups from Ukraine," saysFriedman, a formerpolitical science professor."And we'll hear back from some
of them." Open-source spying does havets risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad.
That's where Straitford earns its keep. Friedman relies on a eanl staff of 20ni Austin. Severalof his staff members have military-intelligence
backgrounds. He sees the firm's outsider status as the key to its success.Straitford's briefs don't sound like the usual
Washington back-and-forthing,whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong.
Straitford, says Friedman, takes pride in its independentcevoi.
41. 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 profession
42. 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 CIA
43. The phrase "making the biggest splash" (line 1, paragraph 3) most probably means ________.
[A] causing the biggest trouble
[B] exerting the greatest effort
[C] achieving the greatest success
[D] enjoying the widest popularity
44. It can be learned from paragraph 4 that ________.
[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
45. Straitford is most proud of its ________.
[A] official status
[B]
nonconformist
image
[C] efficient staff
[D] military background
试题解析：
这是一篇说明性的文章，介绍了互联网技术对情报行业的影响。文章第一段便指出，互联网在改变情报行业。第二段进一步说明互联网促使了一种新的情报行业的诞生，运用互联网技术可以获取更多的情报。接下来，作者以 Straitford公司为例，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。整篇文章通俗易懂，虽存在个别生词，但考生可以通过上下文猜测出词义。
基于这篇文章的 5 道小题考查的范围覆盖了全文，既考查了考生理解具体信息的能力，也考查了考生推测词义、推理引申的能力。 5 道小题难度适中。
41. [B] 该小题考查的是考生是否理解了第一段内容，特别是最后一句话。
那句话是：“These daysthe Net, whichhas re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sendingmail, is
reshaping Donovan's vocation as well.”。其中，“ Donovan's vocation指的就是”“ spying，也”就是“ intelligence
services ” （ 情 报 行 业 ） 。 关 键 在 于 对 “reshape一” 词 的 理 解 ， 它 的 含 义 是 “改 造 ” 。
理解了以上这两点就能选出正确答案 B。其实 B 选项就是原文的另一种表述方式 。但是，此题只有 28.7％的
考 生 选 出 了 正 确 案 ， 答 对 率 不 高 。
更多的考生选择的是 D。选错的原因可能在于考生对“reshape与”“revive的”词义差别区分不清。“revive一”词的含义是“to come or bring back into use orstexince（”复兴，复活），暗含的意思是某事物已不存在或已丧失作用。第一段并没有提到间谍行业曾经消失的信息，从第二段中我们了解到互联网推动了情报行业的发展，也没有找到任何关于情报行业曾经中断的内容，所以 D 选项的说法是不正确的。
C选项也不正确，关键也在于“re-make”与“restore的差”别。“restore的含”义有：（1）“bring back
