单选题 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 (62) does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less (63) then, however, were the new, positive (64) that work against the digital divide. (65) , there are reasons to be (66) .
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more (67) , it is in the interest of business to universalize access—after all, the more people online, the more potential (68) there are. More and more (69) , afraid their countries will be left (70) , want to spread the Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be (71) together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will (72) rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for (73) world poverty that we've ever had.
Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to (74) poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has (75) potential.
To (76) advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices (77) respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an (78) of their sovereignty might well study the history of (79) ( 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 (80) America's Second Wave infrastructure— (81) roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on—were built with foreign investment.

单选题 62A. divide B. information C. world D. lecture
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】由文中第一行的digital divide得出答案：在现今社会那种区分确实存在。
单选题 A. obscure B. visible C. invisible D. indistinct
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】obscure模糊的，不清楚的；visible看得见的，明显的；invisible看不见的；indistinct不清楚的，模糊的。空格前的less已有否定意义：在那个时候并不是很明显的是……。
单选题 A. forces B. obstacles C. events D. surprises
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】force力量，武力；obstacle障碍；event事件；surprise惊奇，诧异。句意：现在有新的、乐观的力量来对抗数字鸿沟。
单选题 65A. Seriously B. Entirely C. Actually D. Continuously
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】seriously认真地；entirely完全的；actually实际上；continuously连续地，根据上下文逻辑关系，此处填写actually比较恰当。
单选题 A. negative B. optimistic C. pleasant D. disappointed
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】negative消极的；optimistic乐观的；pleasant令人愉快的；disappointed令人失望的。前文说有积极的力量在对抗数字鸿沟的不利因素，因此，实际上我们有理由保持乐观的态度。
单选题 A. developed B. centralized C. realized D. commercialized
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】develop发展；centralize集中；realize认识到；commercialize使商业化。由下文“网络有利于商业途径的普及”，可知此处表述的意思是网络越来越商业化。in the interest of...为了……的利益。
单选题 A. users B. producers C. customers D. citizens
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】user使用者；producer生产者；customer消费者；citizen公民。句意：越多的人上网就有越多的潜在消费者。
单选题 A. enterprises B. governments C. officials D. customers
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】enterprise企业，事业；government政府；official官员。句意：越来越多的政府害怕他们的国家……。
单选题 A. away B. for C. aside D. behind
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】leave behind：留下，超过。与leave相关的短语：leave aside把某事搁置一边；leave out省去，遗漏，不考虑；leave off停止，不再穿。
单选题 A. netted B. worked C. put D. organized
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】网络把人们联系在一起，选netted。
单选题 A. decrease B. narrow C. neglect D. low
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】decrease减少；narrow变窄；neglect忽视，疏忽；low降低。句意：因此，我现在认为数字鸿沟是在变窄而不是在拓宽。
单选题 A. containing B. preventing C. keeping D. combating
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】contain包含，容纳；prevent防止，阻止；keep保留，保持；combat战斗，搏斗。句意：那是一个好消息，因为因特网也许会成为有史以来与贫困抗争的最好武器。
单选题 A. win B. detail C. defeat D. fear
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】win赢得；detail详述，细说；defeat击败，战胜；fear畏惧。句意：当然因特网的使用不是战胜贫困的唯一方法。
单选题 A. enormous B. countless C. numerical D. big
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】enormous巨大的；countless无数的；numerical数字的。potential作名词为不可数，不能用countless修饰，big一般表示尺寸、数字、范围上的大。
单选题 A. bring B. keep C. hold D. take
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】take advantage of利用。此为固定搭配。
单选题 A. at B. with C. of D. for
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】with respect to关于，至于with也可换成in。表示关于的还有with regard to，concerning等。
单选题 A. offence B. investment C. invasion D. insult
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】offence冒犯；investment投资；invasion入侵；insult侮辱。
单选题 A. construction B. facility C. infrastructure D. institution
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】construction建筑；facility设备；infrastructure基础设施；institution公共机构，制度。从后文中出现的infrastructure可以轻易得到答案。
单选题 A. why B. where C. when D. how
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】表语从句，表示原因，“这也就是为什么……”。
单选题 A. concerning B. concluding C. according D. including
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】concerning关于；concluding结束的；according根据；including包括。