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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.
Straitford is most proud of its______.
选项 A、official status
B、nonconformist image
C、efficient staff
D、military background
答案B
解析 事实细节题。通过题干中的is most proud of定位至末段末句“弗莱德曼说，斯特雷福特公司为其独立的立场而感到自豪”。这是斯特雷福特与其他公司的不同之处，B正是该说法的同义转述。这里的关键在于理解nonconformist的含义。文章最后一段主要介绍斯特雷福特公司的经营理念。第一句描述了该公司的雇员情况。第三句和第五句是本段的关键所在，它们表达了同样的概念：独立的立场是成功的关键，这是公司总裁乔治·弗莱德曼对于自身公司的理解，也是其特色所在。nonconformist的本意是“不符合准则或规范的人”。这与本段中的“不像华盛顿当局简报那样含糊其辞”以及末句中的“独立的立场”所表达的意思相符。conform指“符合，适应环境，适合”，前缀non-表“不，非”，后缀-ist表“……的人”，根据构词法即可得出。A“官方地位"本身就与最后一段中提到的“独立的立场”相矛盾。C“高效的员工”及D“军事背景”虽然都是该公司的真实情况，但文中并未提到该公司因此而感到骄傲。
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