完形填空 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【C1】______does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less invisible then, however, were the new, positive【C2】______that work against the digital divide. Actually, there are reasons to be【C3】______.
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more【C4】______, it is in the interest of business to universalize access—after all, the more people online, the more potential【C5】______there are. More and more enterprises, afraid their countries will be left【C6】______, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, 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【C7】______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. But it has big potential.
To【C8】______advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anticolonial prejudices【C9】______respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty might well study the history of【C10】______ (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 why America's Second Wave infrastructure—concerning roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on—were built with foreign investment.
单选题 21.【C1】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】四个选项的意思分别是:divide分水岭,分界线;intonation语调,声调;world世界,领域;lecture演讲,教训。空格所在句前面说今天的人们十分关注所谓的数字鸿沟问题。根据“digital divide”可以推知,空格处是说这个鸿沟今天确实存在。正确答案是A选项。
单选题 22.【C2】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】四个选项的意思分别是:forces影响力,威力,势力;obstacles障碍(物);events事件,大事,活动;surprises惊喜,意外的事。空格所在句意为:那时些抵制数字鸿沟的、新的积极因素还不如今天明显。根据句意可推出正确答案是A选项。
单选题 23.【C3】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】四个选项的意思分别是:negative消极的,否认的;optimistic乐观的;pleasant令人愉快的;有趣的;disappointed失望的,沮丧的。第二段的第句说“些技术上的因素使我们有理由希望鸿沟会缩小”。据此可以推知,空格处是说“我们是有理由感到乐观的”。正确答案是B选项。
单选题 24.【C4】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】四个选项的意思分别是:developed先进的,发达的;centralized集中的,居中的;tealized实现的;commercialized商业化的。空格所在句意为:随着互联网变得越来越商业化,普及上网对商家是有利的。根据句意可推出正确答案是D选项。
单选题 25.【C5】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】四个选项的意思分别是:users用户,使用者;producers生产者,制造者;customers顾客,客户;citizens公民。空格所在句意为:上网人数越多,潜在的消费者就越多。根据前句提到的“in the interest of business”可推知正确答案是C选项。
单选题 26.【C6】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】空格所在句意为:越来越多的企业,由于担心自己的国家会落后,都想推广互联网。leave behind意为“丢弃;使落后”,因此正确答案是D选项。
单选题 27.【C7】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】四个选项的意思分别是:containing克制,牵制,包含;preventing防止,预防;keeping(使)保持,(使)继续;combating与……斗争,防止,减轻。空格所在句意为:互联网非常有可能成为我们消除所面临的贫困的最强有效的工具。根据句意可推出正确答案是D选项。
单选题 28.【C8】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】四个选项的意思分别是:bring带来,促使,提供;keep保持,保留,遵守;hold握住,保留,保存;take拿,采取,受(礼物等)。空格所在句意为:利用互联网这个工具。take advantage of意为“利用”,正确答案是D选项。
单选题 29.【C9】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】空格所在句意为:某些贫困国家必须克服在外国投资方面过时的反殖民偏见。with respect to意为“关于”,正确答案是B选项。
单选题 30.【C10】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】四个选项的意思分别是:construction建筑物,建造;facility设备,能力;infrastructure基础设施;institution机构,惯例,制度。根据空格后的“the basic structural foundations of a society社会的基本结构基础”可以推知,正确答案是C选项。