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__./ r# M/ l9 s3 u6 t$ K2 l; ?( |
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.1 s4 }( V$ l5 l
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.
l0 N. a; W- X: G7 E. ? To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment.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.
5 X# Q' f9 L1 f) w, U 1. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture
3 T; a" O4 K! ~1 C! @# l4 g/ T 2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct
; o8 k$ ]6 D+ Q8 n$ I2 w' x: }" z 3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises6 S; I8 C' ~. b5 W; b Q6 N
4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously; |! C# [1 N: ^
5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed* S3 E' D q- k9 Z: Z
6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized. l# g6 E' Z3 I# C/ V5 f* b+ w
7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens
' Q% `+ t3 J" ~4 R \, I 8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers
# [; R! M5 [" n: o( Q 9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind
: k2 J3 c- N3 M: q B4 u" ^; h 10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized
! ?+ X$ |& J' _ O; \2 ^ 11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low% @+ q. I7 V# d
12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating4 i K4 p9 X: U7 ]& q1 R( B2 F
13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear
0 K1 S- H; e9 L7 n 14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big
t- `# f ?+ S9 J! v 15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take" ~. E3 b- A, | Y/ u6 ^ n
16. A) at B) with C) of D) for" r |, ?) j4 I5 L7 J& v
17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult" n- d9 \% ]0 ~. _( A
18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution
/ B, h t' o% b 19. A) why B) where C) when D) how) o2 ?7 A; X* X$ H: l7 U+ l- h
20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including |