Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Offi

Henry：Bill，would you tell me the time？

Bill：It’S 9：30．

Henry：Our plane will take off in an hour．__________go to the airport．

Bill：Don’t worry．We have enough time．

A.We’re going

B.We should

C.We’d better

D.We would

A.We’re going

B.We should

C.We’d better

D.We would

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)

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 pastimes as buying books and sending mails, is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well.

The last 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 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'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 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-frothing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong. Straitford, says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice.

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

Woman: There's Bill on his motorcycle again. Did he get it fixed in the garage？

Man: Don't be silly. That would have been a waste of money. It only had a flat tire.

Question: What does the man imply？

A．The woman was so silly as to waste much money.

B．It was costly to have the motorcycle fixed in the garage.

C．Bill must have repaired the motorcycle himself.

D．There was a serious problem with the motorcycle.

Why is the woman's bill more expensive than it should be？

A．She spent a lot of time on the Internet.

B．She made many overseas calls.

C．She didn't pay her last phone bill.

D．She found calls that she didn't make.

--Why didn't you buy it？

--I ______, but I didn't have the money.

A. would

B. would have

C. had had

D. had bought

A．Introduction phase.

B．Growth phase.

C．Mature phase.

D．Decline phase.

The Eurostar train service linking the UK and French capitals via the Channel Tunnel is winning customers in increasing numbers. In late May, it carried its one millionth passenger, having run only a limited service between London, Paris and Brussels since November 1994, starting with two trains a day in each direction to Paris and Brussels. By 1997, the company believes that it will be carrying ten million passengers a year, and continue to grow from there.

From July, Eurostar steps its service to nine trains each way between London and Paris, and five between London and Brussels. Each train carries almost 800 passengers, 210 of them in first class.

The airlines estimate that they will initially lose around 15%-20% of their London-Paris traffic to the railways once Eurostar starts a full service later this year (1995), with 15 trains a day each way. A similar service will start to Brussels. The damage will be limited, however, the airlines believe, with passenger numbers returning to previous levels within two to three years.

In the short term, the damage caused by the 1 million people-level traveling between London and Paris and Brussels on Eurostar trains means that some air services are already suffering. Some of the major carders say that their passenger numbers are down by less than 5% and point to their rivals-particularly Air France-as having suffered the problems. On the Brussels route, the railway company had less success, and the airlines report anything from around a 5% drop to no visible decline in traffic.

The airlines' optimism on returning traffic levels is based on historical precedent. British Midland, for example, points to its experience on Heathrow Leeds Bradford service which saw passenger numbers fold by 15% when British Rail electrified and modernized the railway line between London and Yorkshire. Two years later, travel had risen between the two destinations to the point where the airline was carrying record numbers of passengers.

Airlines are confident in the fact that ______.

A．they are more powerful than other European airlines

B．their total loss won't go beyond a drop of 5% passengers

C．their traffic levels will return in 2-3 years

D．traveling by rail can never catch up with traveling by air