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【单选题】WildBillDonovan would have loved the Intemet. TheAmerican spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in World War Ⅱ and later laid the roots for theCIA、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 re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshapingDonovan’’ s vocation as well. The latest 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 theCI
A、held a contest to see who could compile the most data aboutBumndi. 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 this new world is Straifford, In
C、, a private intelligence-analysis firm based inAustin, Texas. Straifford makes money by selling the results of spying (covering nations fromChile to Russia) to corporations like energy-services firm McDermott International. Many of its predictions are available online at www. straitford, com. 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 comers of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine. "As soon as that report runs, we’’ II suddenly get 500 new Intemet singe-ups from Ukraine," says Friedman, a former political science professor. "And we’’ 11 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 Straifford earns its keep. Fridman relies on a lean staff of 20 inAustin.Several of his staff members have military- intelligence backgrounds. He sees the firm’’s outsider status as the key to its success. Straifford’’ 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. It can be learned from paragraph 4 that
A、Straifford’’s prediction about Ukraine has proved true.
B．Straifford guarantees the truthfulness of its information.

C、Straifford’’s business is characterized by unpredictability.
D． Straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information.

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
从第4段来看，可以了解Straitford可以提供一些相当可靠的情报。可以从本段最后 2句看出，这2句说：从公开的消息中收集情报确实有风险，因为很难分辨情报的真假，而 Straifford就是以此谋生的。由此可推出，他能够提供一些相当可靠的情报。[注释]从第4段来看，可以了解Straitford可以提供一些相当可靠的情报。可以从本段最后 2句看出，这2句说：从公开的消息中收集情报确实有风险，因为很难分辨情报的真假，而 Straifford就是以此谋生的。由此可推出，他能够提供一些相当可靠的情报。 A．Straitford关于乌克兰的预言证明是正确的。实际上文中没有具体说明正确与否。 B．Straitford保证它的情报是真的。文章中没有提及。 C．Straitford的业务是以不可预言性为特点的。文章中没有说到。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>