In linking geographically disparate people, the Internet is arguably helping millions of spontaneous communities to bloom: communities defined by common interests rather than by the accident of ______.
【正确答案】 E
【答案解析】- 方程等号：冒号说明前后同义重复。rather than取反。
- 强词和对应：根据题意，冒号前提到互联网把地理位置不同的人们联系起来，帮助大量的社区繁荣起来。冒号后面rather than取反，所以空格体现geographically disparate或者bloom的反义重复。compatibility兼容性，affluence富有，reciprocity互惠互利，contemporaneousness同时发生，proximity地理上邻近。答案选E。