考研必备阅读研究（上）.pdf

考神团队 陈曲出品 编者按： 1. 以下文章是考研英语（一）2003 年-2007 年五年内必须研究的篇章，里面的题目非常典 型，代表了很多做题方法。 2. 请各位同学在研究题目选项时，务必遵循以下步骤：（1）该题目的做题方法是什么？直 选还是排除法？（2）如果是直接选择，那么定位点在哪里？（3）如果是排除法，那么 每个选项错在哪里？（4）错误点是否能够反映出某种规律？（5）总结细节题、推断题、 目的题、中心题和词汇题的做法。 3. 各位同学每天研究一篇，然后接着下一个文档《2008 年-2012 年必研究篇章》，敬请期 待。 注：文档中极有可能存在打印错误，时间有限，无法仔细校对，请大家见谅。 Text 1 （2003年第一篇） Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in the 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 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 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 of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collect