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 i+ t0 V; m' R
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.
$ P. y* d3 N( Q8 d0 m$ i7 i' H 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.0 `) ~9 \4 t& {. u S+ @/ Z* w
To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment.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." Q/ A, {' R d' Y/ |7 [6 `
1. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture4 T9 a/ {4 \0 ]
2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct
$ C7 E/ T0 K" S- k* k 3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises4 h/ H( D2 Q6 N. Q, O1 s) M
4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously
G9 c! ?7 U/ W ?& s/ b0 K 5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed4 ?" W/ G2 l( h; Y8 Q
6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized
- d4 ~& B' E0 q' m% K 7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens
4 ?1 X! e6 I# J6 F' P4 b. a) J 8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers
N E+ |: d7 m! F 9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind
' b' a, H& ~% G' u0 e, V6 { 10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized; f% _0 M+ M) [! ]- V- K6 u4 j7 s* j
11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low
; d) A' v) R* ^$ P 12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating
7 K+ S4 O6 ^0 ^% h$ c' e! Y5 d 13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear
- I2 p/ [& F7 g2 `9 s2 f 14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big
( F6 p$ y7 a1 ]0 g) u' M# Y5 ^# i 15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take
$ c2 }! |& M5 n) u: o5 L/ h9 R/ E+ k 16. A) at B) with C) of D) for- F. L5 v/ R9 ~, }( A# m
17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult9 j- T3 i4 N- D7 ^
18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution
# V; y: j9 ~; C# o" o5 I5 p 19. A) why B) where C) when D) how
9 f# E" B R& y! u- O 20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including. ]( g8 u( ~( z W4 H9 ~" ?
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