2003考研英语阅读真题及详细解析

1、Part OneWild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in 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 re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovans vocation as well.The latest revolution isnt simply a matt

2、er of gentlemen reading other gentlemens 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 Sol

3、utions, whose clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world.Among this 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 .Straitford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind

4、of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymasters 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, well suddenly get 500 new internet sign-ups from Ukraine, says Friedman, a former political science professor. And well hear back from some of them. Open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information

5、from bad. Thats 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 firms outsider status as the key to its success. Straitfords briefs dont 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.1. The emergence of the Net has _.A received support f

6、rom fans like Donovan.B remolded the intelligence services.C restored many common pastimes. D revived spying as a profession.2. Donovans story is mentioned in the text to _.A introduce the topic of online spying.B show how he fought for the U.S.C give an episode of the information war.D honor his unique services to the CIA.3. 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 succes

7、s.D enjoying the widest popularity.4. It can be learned from paragraph 4 that _.A Straitfords prediction about Ukraine has proved true.B Straitford guarantees the truthfulness of its information.C Straitfords business is characterized by unpredictability.D Straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information.5. Straitford is most proud of its _.A official status.B nonconformist image.C efficient staff.D military background.Unit 10（2003） Part 1重点词汇：1.spymaster 即spy+master，间谍大王、间谍组织首脑。2.strat

8、egic （战略的；对全局起关键作用的）为strategy（战略，策略）的形容词形式，-ic为形容词后缀。strategy and tactics 战略与战术；a global strategy 全球战略。Worry more about implementation than strategy its harder to do.更多地为贯彻落实而非战略本身操心这样做更难。3.lay the roots for 扎根于。4.fascinate（使着迷，强烈地吸引），去e加名词后缀-ion即为fascination（入迷；诱惑力），去e加形容词后缀-ing即为fascinating（迷人的），另可记fascism（法西斯主义），fascist（法西斯主义的；法西斯主义者）。5.espionage（间谍活动）即esp（i）+ion+age，espi即espy（窥探e-=ex-出来+spy窥探），-ion与-age皆名词后缀，表“活动”。6.revolution（革命；旋转）是revolve（使旋转）的名词形式，“旋转”入“革命”的漩涡。revolve即re+volve，re-反复，volv

9、e词根“卷”，于是“反复卷”旋转。7.give birth to 分娩；产生；造成。He gave birth to a brilliant idea.他想到一个绝妙的主意。8.spook（幽灵；间谍）可看作sp（y）+o（o）+ok“幽灵”级的“间谍”窥探（spy）只用两只眼睛（oo）就ok了。spook something everyone is afraid of and no one believes in 幽灵人人害怕，却没人相信的东西。9.intelligence（智力；情报）即intel+lig+ence，intel-即inter-（前缀，意为“在之间”=between，因后接l，故r变形为l），lig词根意为“选择”=lect（i与e元音可替换，ct=GG就是由一个大C与一个小T组成的），-ence名词后缀，故“从中挑选出所需之物的能力”智力；“从中挑选出来的东西”情报。intelligent（聪明的）intel+lig+ent形容词后缀；intelligible（可理解的，易懂的）intel+lig+ible形容词后缀。10.influential（有影响的；有权势的）即in+flu+ential，in-前缀意为“到里面”=into，flu词根意为“流”=flow（flu作单词时意为“流感”，即“流行性感冒”），-ential形容词后缀，故“能流到心里面的”有影响的。名词与动词形式都是influencein+flu+ence后缀。pile（编辑；搜集）即com+pile，com

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