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They are two of the biggest names in technology and each is grappling with a huge and highly embarrassing debacle. On April 26th

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问题     They are two of the biggest names in technology and each is grappling with a huge and highly embarrassing debacle. On April 26th Amazon’s finance chief, Thomas Szkutak, said the firm was still trying to get to the bottom of a glitch that caused numerous websites it hosts for other businesses to crash or run painfully slowly during the previous week. The same day, Sony of Japan revealed that names, addresses, passwords and possibly credit-card details of 77m accounts were stolen when hackers gained access to the network it runs in 60 countries for its PlayStation online-gaming system, as well as for Qriocity, a service offering music, films and television shows.
    The two cases are different, but each has, in its own way, revived worries about the safety of storing and processing data over the internet—worries that have largely faded since the web’s early days, as countless individuals and companies have come to find that the benefits of doing things online greatly outweigh the risks. The two crises have also raised questions about the speed and quality of information provided by tech companies when confronted with system failures.
    Details of what happened at Amazon Web Services, which offers computing services and data storage over the internet "cloud", were still emerging as we went to press. But it seems that a serious problem in a data centre in northern Virginia triggered an outage that affected some of the firms using that center’s infrastructure, including Foursquare, a social-media company, and a number of other prominent start-ups. Some data seem to have been lost permanently. Amazon irritated its corporate customers with the vagueness of its early updates. Keith Smith, the boss of BigDoor, a gaming firm, complained in a blog post that these seemed to have been written by lawyers and accountants "rather than by a tech guy trying to help another tech guy.
    That is a black mark against a company that prides itself on being among the world’s most customer-centered. But none of this means the shift to cloud computing is about to go into reverse. Indeed, Forrester, a research outfit, reckons that the global market for cloud services could grow from $ 41 billion last year to $ 241 billion by 2020. One reason for this is that the savings that can be won by shifting computing to the cloud remain compelling; another is that Amazon-style snafus have been rare.
    Yet another is that managing one’s own network is hardly a guarantee of reliability. Ask Sony, whose online-gaming system, although delivered through the cloud, is hosted on its own servers. Services were suspended on April 20th after an intrusion was detected, but Sony then took almost a week to admit the risks to users’ personal data. The company insisted’ it had taken this long for it to realize the seriousness of the threat. But this claim was met with skepticism; and Sony’s failure to encrypt all of its customers’ data may bring it lawsuits and regulatory penalties.
Amazon and Sony are mentioned to illustrate________.
选项 A、the financial dilemma caused by online hackers
B、the emerging concern over online data security
C、the superb online game services for their customers
D、the speedy and top-quality information offered when in disorder
答案B
解析 本题是细节题。根据题干定位至首段。文章首先提到亚马逊公司发生一起故障，这个问题导致它所托管的许多网站在前一周崩溃或运行缓慢，同一天，黑客人侵了日本索尼公司，导致其很多顾客资料失窃，这两起故障说明作者在担忧网络数据的安全性。而且作者在第二段的首句也提到本文的主题，即人们对通过互联网存储和处理数据的安全性的担忧，因此提到这两家公司是为了引出全文的主题，故答案选B。A项为强干扰项，但文章中只说造成资料失窃，不能引申出造成了经济上的困境，C项利用首段末句中提到的索尼的在线游戏系统和其提供的服务做干扰，是错误选项；D项出自原文第二段末句，这是作者由这两起故障所引发的思考，不是文章的主。故均排除。
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