阅读理解阅读理解阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。Agreatdealofattentionisbeingpaidtodaytotheso-calleddigital(数字的)dividethedivis

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阅读理解

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阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital (数字的) dividethe division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive (积极) forces that work against the digital divide.

　　There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized (商业化), it is in the interest of business to increase the number of customersafter all, the more people online, the more interest there is. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the next ten or twenty years, one to two billion people on the planet will be netted together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for defeating world poverty that we've ever had. Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. To take advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial ideas. Countries that still think foreign investment (投资) is an invasion (侵略) of their sovereignty (主权) might well study the history of infrastructure (基础设施) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so. And that is why America's Second Wave infrastructure-including roads, harbors, highways, ports and so onwere built with foreign investment. The English, the Germans, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britain's former colony. Guess who owns them now? The Americans. I believe the same thing would be true in places like Brazil or anywhere else for that matter. The more foreign capital you have helping you build your Third Wave infrastructure, which today is an electronic infrastructure, the richer you're going to be. That doesn't mean lying down and becoming fooled, or letting foreign corporations run uncontrolled. But it does mean recognizing how important they can be in building the energy and telecom infrastructures needed to take full advantage of the Internet.

1．Digital divide is something ________.

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A．getting worse because of the Internet

B．the world must guard against

C．the rich countries care for

D．considered positive today

2．The writer mentioned the case of the United States to support the policy of ________.

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A．providing financial support overseas

B．preventing foreign capital's control

C．building industrial infrastructure

D．accepting foreign investment

3．It seems that now a country's economy depends much on ________.

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A．how well developed it is electronically

B．whether it is against immigrants (移民)

C．whether it follows America's industrial pattern

D．how much control it has over foreign corporations

4．Which is the most important for a developing country according to the passage?

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A．Protecting the national industry.

B．Setting up lots of factories to meet the needs of the society.

C．Introducing foreign capital in to build the electronic infrastructure.

D．Developing green agriculture so as to keep people healthy.

Answer 1

B;D;A;C