单选题 A 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 To【C8】______advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices【C9】______respect to foreign investment.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 【C1】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:上下文语义。从指示代词that可知此处所填单词应为前面出现的名词中心词,而so-calleddigital divide中的divide为中心词,故选项A正确。
单选题 【C2】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:上下文语义。从修饰语positive推断空格处所填单词应是积极意义的名词,选项B与D可排除,而从语境可知force比events更为合适。故答案为A。
单选题 【C3】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:上下文语义。前文提及有对抗数字化鸿沟的积极力量,第二段首句提及技术因素有望缩小数字化鸿沟。故可知答案应为选项B。
单选题 【C4】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:上下文语义。从下文中的the interest of business可知空格处应填入“商业化”之意,故答案为D。
单选题 【C5】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:上下文语义。上文中在讨论business,commercialize,空格处应为与商业贸易有关的词汇,由此可知customer符合语境。故答案为C。
单选题 【C6】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:固定搭配。此处的语境应为企业担心自己的国家会落后,leave behind为固定搭配。故答案为D。
单选题 【C7】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:动词词义辨析。选项Combat做及物动词有“战斗,与……做斗争”之意,符合语境。故答案为D。
单选题 【C8】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:固定搭配。take advantage of意为“利用”。故答案为D。
单选题 【C9】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:固定搭配。with respect to意为“关于,至于”。故答案为B。
单选题 【C10】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:词汇释义。从空格后括号内的注释可知空格处的单词意为“社会基本建筑基础”。故答案为C。