单选题 Companies have the legal right to monitor employees' e-mail and instant messaging. Many do, whether they warn their workers or not. Last month the University of Tennessee released the e-mail correspondence between an administrator and a married college president in which the administrator wrote of her love for him, and of her use of drugs and alcohol to deal with her unhappiness. Employers, including The New York Times and Dow Chemical, have fired workers for sending improper e-mail.
But the fastest-growing area for Internet spying is the home. SpectorSoft, a leading manufacturer of spyware, at first marketed its products to parents and employers. Sales jumped enormously, however, when the company changed its pitch to target romantic partners. "In just one day of running Spector on my home PC, I was able to identify my boyfriend's true personality," a message on the company's website declares.
What can you expect if someone puts SpectorSoft's Spector 2.2 on your computer? It will take hundreds of records an hour of every website and e-mail that appears on your screen, and store them so that someone who is spying on you can review them later. A new product, SpectorSoft's eBlaster, will send the spy detailed e-mail reports updating your computer activities frequently. These products keep the people being spied on totally unaware.
SpectorSoft has sold 35 000 copies of its spyware, and it has only a piece of a flourishing market. WinWhatWhere, another big player, sells primarily to businesses, but what it calls the "discontented family member" market has been finding WinWhatWhere. Many smaller companies have sites that sell relatively crude "key-loggers", software that records every keystroke typed on a computer.
Isn't all this spying on loved ones a little creepy? Not to SpectorSoft president Doug Fowler. "If you're in a committed relationship and you get caught because of evidence online, as far as I'm concerned you deserve to be caught," he says. Richard Eaton, president of WinWhatWhere, recognizes that in a perfect world users would reveal that they have placed monitoring software on a computer. But WinWhatWhere Investigator has a feature that allows it to be completely hidden. "Our customers demanded it," he says.

单选题 From the text we learn that most companies in the US ______.

单选题 The future of spyware is the most promising when it comes to ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】分析推理题。短文第二段以SpectorSoft这个公司为例，说明了监控软件的市场情况。该段第一句首先指出，上网监控软件发展最快的市场还是家庭。紧接着说SpectorSoft最初以家长和雇主为市场目标，但当该公司将市场目标定向恋爱中的情侣时，销售额却剧增，并以具体例子进行了证明。由此可以合理推知，监控软件的目标主要是个人，被用于监控个人的网上行为，故本题选[B]。其余三项中，[A]中的standardizing(使标准化)、[C]中的diversifying(使多样化)在原文中都没有体现，由常识也可知不对；[D]项中的regulating(规范)在原文中没有体现，而various online behaviors(不同的上网行为)所指也太泛。

单选题 Form the text we know that SpectorSoft's Spector 2.2 works ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】分析推理题。短文中提到Spector 2.2的地方是第三段第一、二句，因此应细读这两句。其中第二句指出：It will take hundreds of records...can review them later(它会将你的电脑屏幕上出现的每一个网站、每一封电子邮件都记录下来，每小时能记录几百条，让监控你的人过后可以浏览这些记录)。由这一句显然无法说明这一软件是creatively(有创造性地)、precisely(精确地)或quickly(迅速地)。再看后文，我们发现作者又举了一种软件为例，并且在该段最后一句总结说：These products keep the people being spied on totally unaware(这些产品都让被监控的人毫无察觉)，表明这些软件(包括Spector 2.2)运行时都是secretly(秘密地，隐秘地)，故本题答案是[C]。

单选题 What might WinWhatWhere do in the future?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】细节题。本题实际上属于词句理解题，因为答题的关键在于考生对短文第四段第二句的理解。该句前一分句先指出WinWhatWhere这个公司的软件主要销售给公司，而后一分句紧接着指出：but what it calls the “discontented family member” market has been finding WinWhatWhere(但其所称的“牢骚满腹的家人”这一市场一直都在找寻WinWhatWhere)。根据常识，既然在这些人群中有市场，那么WinWhatWhere将来肯定会将注意力转向这一市场，因此本题答案就是[B]。其余三项都无法由这一名句合理推知。