Straifford 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'll suddenly get 500 new internet sign-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 where Straitford earns its keep.

　　Friedman relies on a lean staff in Austin. Several of 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 independent voice.

　　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.

　　[答案] B

　　[解题思路]

　　本题的对应信息在文章第一段的最后一句话“These days the Net, which has already re-made pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well”(如今，互联网已经改变了像买书和寄信这样的日常活动，也正在改变多诺汶曾经从事的这个职业)，而多诺汶的职业就是espionage，或者说是spying as a profession。四个选项中只有B选项符合文章原意，其中reshape与remold是同义词，而espionage与intelligence services是同义词，因而B是正确答案。A选项与原文意思不符，因此从文章第一句“Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet”(比尔•多诺汶肯定会喜欢网络)，would have 这个虚拟语气的表达说明多诺汶对网络并不知晓。C选项中的restore与re-made意思正好相反，是错误选项。D选项中revive也与reshape意思相左。