时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:12.28]Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet.
[00:15.51]The American spymaster who built the Office of
[00:18.42]Strategic Services in World War II
[00:21.35]and later laid the roots for the CIA
[00:24.38]was fascinated 1 with information.
[00:27.67]Donovan believed in using
[00:29.25]whatever tools came to hand in the "great game"
[00:32.58]of espionage--spying as a "profession."
[00:36.81]These days the Net,
[00:38.93]which has already re-made such everyday pastimes
[00:42.26]as buying books and sending mail,
[00:44.68]is reshaping Donovan's vocation 2 as well.
[00:48.78]The last revolution isn't simply a matter of
[00:51.70]gentlemen reading other gentlemen's e-mail.
[00:54.62]That kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades.
[00:59.16]In the past three or four years,
[01:01.38]the World Wide Web has given birth to a whole industry
[01:04.91]of point-and-click spying.
[01:08.12]The spooks call it "open-source intelligence,"
[01:11.66]and as the Net grows, it is becoming
[01:13.88]increasingly influential 3.
[01:16.70]In 1995 the CIA held a contest to see
[01:21.74]who could compile 4 the most data about Burundi.
[01:26.20]The winner, by a large margin,
[01:28.41]was a tiny Virginia company called Open Source Solutions,
[01:32.25]whose clear advantage was its mastery
[01:35.07]of the electronic world.
[01:38.20]Among the firms making the biggest splash
[01:41.13]in this new world is Straitford, Inc.,
[01:43.65]a private intelligence-analysis firm based in Austin, Texas.
[01:48.29]Straitford makes money by selling the results
[01:51.31]of spying (covering nations from Chile to Russia)
[01:55.85]to corporations like energy-services firm McDermott International.
[02:01.70]Many of its predictions are available online
[02:05.03]at www.straitford.com.
[02:09.78]Straitford president George Friedman says
[02:12.91]he sees the online world as a kind of
[02:15.18]mutually reinforcing tool for
[02:17.81]both information collection and distribution,
[02:21.23]a spymaster's dream.
[02:23.54]Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits
[02:27.49]from the far corners of the world
[02:29.60]and predicting a crisis 5 in Ukraine.
[02:32.52]"As soon as that report runs,
[02:35.24]we'll suddenly get 500 new Internet sign-ups from Ukraine,"
[02:39.58]says Friedman, a former political science professor.
[02:43.40]"And we'll hear back from some of them."
[02:45.83]Open-source spying does have its risks, of course,
[02:49.86]since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad.
[02:54.00]That's where Straitford earns its keep.
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[02:57.82]Friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in Austin.
[03:02.16]Several of his staff members
[03:03.83]have military-intelligence backgrounds.
[03:06.76]He sees the firm's outsider status
[03:09.17]as the key to its success.
[03:11.69]Straitford's briefs don't sound like
[03:14.22]the usual Washington back-and-forthing,
[03:17.34]whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations
[03:20.26]on the chance they might be wrong. Straitford,
[03:23.49]says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice.


1 fascinated
a.被强烈地吸引住,感到着迷的
  • China has always fascinated me. 中国一直令我心驰神往。
  • The children watched, fascinated, as the picture began to appear. 电影开始以后孩子们入迷地观看着。
2 vocation
n.职业,行业
  • She struggled for years to find her true vocation.她多年来苦苦寻找真正适合自己的职业。
  • She felt it was her vocation to minister to the sick.她觉得照料病人是她的天职。
3 influential
adj.有影响的,有权势的
  • He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
  • He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
4 compile
vt.编辑,编制,搜集
  • It takes years of hard work to compile a good dictionary.编辑一部好词典需要数年的艰苦工作。
  • In order to compile the military history,he has read many materials.他为了编写军史而查阅了很多材料。
5 crisis
n.危机,危急关头,决定性时刻,关键阶段
  • He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明,在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
  • The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。
学英语单词
Alagez Mount
alcine
Allium victorialis
analog-digital simulation computer
atmospheric lapse rate
Bathyergidae
blau
BMP program
branch type instruction
breakup of voyage
cerisies
chabola
chano
computer-controlled memory test system
conchiplasty
controlled avalanche transit time triode
Corsican mints
crown spring
cyclostylar
date indicator core
deigneth
diagnosis ex juvantibus
dicellispora lelebae
direction of deposition
domafic
Dutch Colonial
e-texts
ecash
elaphoglossum angulatum
euplica deshayesi
EVLW
execution circuit
extension crystallization
fetch operand
gad-fly
giartinine
good opportunity
Gosen
herbert a. simons
horse-hoof sleeve
hypochordal longmuscle
immediately following
indefectuous
inquiry agency
International Relations and Security Network
Joghatāy, Kūh-ye
Juan Ramon Jimenez
kietyoite
kinematic extrapolation
lovers' vows
macrobrachium horstii
mimela confucius formosana
Mundjura Cr.
nitrocomplex
noninstitute clause
normal high water level
nukkas
off your face
omega minus
Phaeosphaerida
phone-ins
Pipeline, distribution
plutonyl(vi) chloride
pocket dosimeter
policy making level
Ponente, C.
pothunter
rally caps
random minelaying
repetendum
rib and loin
rice sieve
rolling steel door
rough pipe
semiautomatic seal
seminarcosis
Setcreasea
skunkhead
stack allocation
stand head and shoulders above
sterile creep
strict double counterpoint
strombus labiosus
sunk screw
target flow transmitter
the poles
thermit mixture
TIRC
to use
try every shift available
untabify
uthinia albisignalis
varitypes
Vincadar
Vita glass
vyny
weighted approximation
weighted spectral responsivity
wireline corer
wooden moulding wiring
yester-day
zigzag value