A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide--the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor. And that __1__ does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less __2__ then, however, were the new, positive __3__ that work against the digital divide. __4__,there are reasons to be __5__.7 H1 Y, F+ y: e9 B
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more __6__, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, the more potential __7__ there are. More and more __8__, afraid their countries will be left __9__, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be __10__ together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will __11__ rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for __12__ world poverty that we’ve ever had.$ o; i9 U7 Q9 ?
Of course, the use of the Internet isn’t the only way to __13__ poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has __14__ potential.- P" B6 c0 [7 N3 V
To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an __17__ of their sovereignty might well study the history of __18__ (the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn’t have the capital to do so. And that is __19__ America’s Second Wave infrastructure-__20__ roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.
% R8 B7 A/ o9 T1 C, ~ 1. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture0 [3 D$ r. l: s) C4 A" `! D
2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct5 S2 O: ~% k7 F3 ?; ^ r
3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises9 a7 J$ R W; F, t
4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously
' o4 ?( a: o' ^, z6 j8 _ 5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed0 o+ e4 `! u0 n) u
6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized b8 \2 ?% i/ A% u
7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens
2 B; X" }# s6 Z5 U6 o7 D 8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers
; g4 J& E; t8 J- \ 9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind2 ?/ E) x V: z& Q. C
10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized
/ y% F& A; S4 Y# T- x- R0 b% ? 11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low
( o& J8 F% O6 r9 o2 g+ `) X$ D 12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating
8 p: S# K$ ]+ O G& V 13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear
+ P+ x4 d$ f0 Y: }! C1 x 14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big
. Z$ b6 v" I4 R% n6 I0 q& ` 15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take
3 W$ Q( E9 P# P) t! |0 \6 @$ ]9 W' d 16. A) at B) with C) of D) for
) w. B2 B' A# a& n 17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult; y+ I2 L3 _: g- `
18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution' c0 g( D# m7 v: _3 T
19. A) why B) where C) when D) how
$ ]$ |/ K& H1 ?* D, k$ V2 k 20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including |