今天的题目：

　　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.

　　45.Straitford is most proud of its ________.

　　[A] official status

　　[B] nonconformist image

　　[C] efficient staff

　　[D] military background

　　昨天题目的解析：（一定要听语音解析！）

　　1. Straitford 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.

　　Straiford的公司总裁乔治•弗雷德曼说，他将互联网当做是一种相互作用的工具，既可以用于情报的收集又可以用于情报的散发，这正是一个间谍大师所要实现的梦想。

　　2. Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine.

　　上一周他的公司一直忙于从世界的各个遥远的角落去收集各种信息以预测在乌克兰可能会发生的危机。

　　3.“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.”

　　“预测刚一开始，我们就立即收到500个来自于乌克兰的注册用户。”弗雷德曼说到，他曾经是一名政治学教授，“我们也会获取一些他们的反馈。”

　　4.Open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. 5.That’s where Straitford earns its keep.

　　当然开放资源的情报活动是有其风险的，因为他很难区分出好的信息和坏的信息。而这正是Straitford赚钱的门道。

　　44.It can be learned from Paragraph 4 that ________.

　　从第四段中可以得知 。

　　[A] Straitford’s prediction about Ukraine has proved true

　　Straitford公司对于乌克兰的预测被证明是正确的

　　[B] Straitford guarantees the truthfulness of its information

　　Straitford公司保证其提供信息的正确性

　　[C] Straitford’s business is characterized by unpredictability

　　Straitford公司业务的特点是不可预测性

　　[D] Straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information

　　Straitford公司能提供相对可靠的信息

　　题型识别：段落推理题

　　题干定位：对应第四段

　　思路解析：解题方式就是四个选项和原文相关处逐一比对，需要知道的是段落推理题答案往往和论点有关，而论点往往在段落的开头和结尾处，同时也可能与转折处有关。

　　选项分析：[A] Straitford’s prediction about Ukraine has proved true和原文中对于Ukraine的表述相关，但是动词的时态错误，并不是已经证明预测正确。

　　[B] Straitford guarantees the truthfulness of its information和原文最后二句相关，但是动词错误，guarantee在文中并未提及。

　　[C] Straitford’s business is characterized by unpredictability和原文倒数第二句相关但是主语错误，不确定的不是Straitford的业务而是Open-source spying（公开资源的情报活动）。

　　[D] Straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information是对于原文最后一句的同义替换，That’s where Straitford earns its keep. 前面说到将好的信息和坏的信息分开很难，后面又说到，这就是Straitford能挣钱的地方，就说明Straitford 是可以提供相对可靠地信息的。

　　这才是解析应该有的态度！