2003年考研英语—真题与答案.ppt

2003年考研英语真题及答案 2003 text1 Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in the World War 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 re made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail is reshaping Donovan 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 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 this 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 Straiford 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 of 20 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 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 days the Net which has re made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail 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 or existence 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 into existence or use 该义 项与 revive 相近 2 bring back to an original condition 恢复到原来的状态 原文说的是 互联网改变了人 们日常生活的方式 如 买书 发邮件等 人们现在可以足不出 户 通过网络购书或发电子邮件 因此 无论 restore 在此取哪 一种义项都与原文意思不符 A选项也是错误的 选择A 的考生对第一句话没有理解 第 一句话用 would have loved 虚拟 语气说 若Wild Bill Donovan还 在世的话 他会爱上互联网的 可见Donovan在世的时候并没有 互联网 从后面的几句话中我们 也能证实这一点 所以A选项将 Donovan说成是互联网的爱好者 的说法是错误的 42 A 该小题问作者提起Donovan 的目的 答这类题的时候 考生应从 整段或全文的角度去考虑 作者 在写文章时举出某个例子时 这 个例子一定是围绕着作者想表达 的观点 读懂了细节 弄清了篇 章结构能有助于把握文章主旨 反过来 了解了文章的大致主题 和观点也可帮助我们吃透细节 其实 在篇首对Donovan的介绍 只是一个引子 导出的是作者要 谈的主题 即第一段的最后一句 话 在后面的几段中 作者介绍 了互联网对情报工作的影响 所 以答案是A 有部分考生选择了C 原因 在于没有理解文章的主题 这道题属于中等难度偏易的 题目 区分度较好 43 C 该小题考查的是考生对词组 词义的猜测能力 make a splash 的含义是 to create a forceful favorable and noticeable e。