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__.
( e0 l3 m2 c& Z# v/ V' Z0 C+ \ 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.
2 `# u0 S' R/ m a 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.
9 _4 U2 Y+ h. k& \3 I" _ S$ _/ r To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment.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.
& c# H0 [1 U9 {( X 1. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture; a6 g% k* N% [1 A$ N
2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct( w" o) x6 ] u
3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises
9 n& H2 D9 h& B$ B; u- I3 o 4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously
" ?/ N7 f9 S5 q2 ` 5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed
, o& B) @: [9 I! Z 6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized9 m, g+ I1 i. ?- W1 B
7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens
/ J1 d4 r) m* s 8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers
3 Y, X$ x M0 J# i3 \3 [1 B 9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind& |9 e- W6 y- b/ _! u4 \6 y
10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized
/ J/ D- L( O3 b' z# s R& [ 11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low
4 I0 Z; G6 ^" N/ O- y3 Z' v+ g9 a+ M 12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating: e8 y @5 w7 O/ B7 T
13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear
( D% @" F; N( C3 ~ b( r 14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big4 K2 v9 w2 E9 c0 Z; K E9 U4 F; ]
15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take
- V1 U7 Z0 w* B+ y 16. A) at B) with C) of D) for) l6 V4 P/ T/ k! S) }' b& s
17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult$ h4 w! t. K) [) {2 q, h9 h$ ]
18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution" g4 T/ Y$ `+ P+ ^
19. A) why B) where C) when D) how2 B0 X7 H: f9 Q1 h D& J
20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including |
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