单选题For the reasons, the newspaper is having ______ problems in the north of the country.
单选题 Political figures in particular are held to very strict standards of moral fidelity.
单选题Video even can be integrated with text to produce ______ and animated documents.
单选题What you say now is not ______ with what you said last week.
A. consistent
B. persistent
C. permanent
D. insistent
单选题I have to say this, but this coat you've just bought is made of ______ fur; it's not real mink.
单选题Today, the computer has taken up appliance status in more than 42 percent of households across the United States. And these computers are increasingly biting wired to the Internet. Online access was up more than 50 percent in just the past year. Now, more than one quarter of all U.S. households can surf in cyberspace.
Mostly, this explosive growth has occurred democratically. The online penetration and computer ownership increases extend across all the demographic levels—by race, geography, income, and education.
We view these trends as favorable without the slightest question because we clearly see computer technology as empowering. In fact, personal growth and a prosperous U.S. economy are considered to be the long-range rewards of individual and collective technological power.
Now for the not-so-good news. The government"s analysis spells out so-called digital divide. That is, the digital explosion is not booming at the same pace for everyone. Yes, it is true that we are all plugged in to a much greater degree than any of us have been in the past. But some of us are more plugged in than others and are getting plugged in far more rapidly. And this gap is widening even as the pace of the information age accelerates through society.
Computer ownership and Internet access are highly classified along lines of wealth, race, education, and geography. The data indicates that computer ownership and online access are growing more rapidly among the most prosperous and well educated: essentially, wealthy white people with high school and college diplomas and who are part of stable, two-parent households. The highest income bracket households, those earning more than $75,000 annually, are 20 times as likely to have access to the Internet as households at the lowest income levels, under $10,000 annually. The computer-penetration rate at the high-income level is an amazing 76.56 percent, compared with 8 percent at the bottom end of the scale.
Technology access differs widely by educational level. College graduates are 16 times as likely to be Internet surfers at home as are those with only elementary-school education. If you look at the differences between these groups in rural areas, the gap widens to a twenty-six-fold advantage for the college-educated.
From the time of the last study, the information-access gap grew by 29 percent between the highest and lowest income groups, and by 25 percent between the highest and lowest education levels.
In the long run, participation in the information age may not be a zero sum game, where if some groups win, others must lose. Eventually, as the technology matures we are likely to see penetration levels approach all groups equally. This was true for telephone access and television ownership, but eventually can be cold comfort in an era when tomorrow is rapidly different from today and unrecognizable compared with yesterday.
单选题A person's calorie requirements vary______his life. A. across B. throughout C. over D. within
单选题Education should not be restricted to anyone______age group.
单选题As he walked out the court, he was ______ with frustration and rage. A. applauding B. quivering C. paralyzing D. limping
单选题Please ______ it that the door is locked before you leave.
单选题Without a(n) liberal supply of necessary equipment and materials, the mountain-climbers would not have been able to scale the heights and reach the top in such bad weather.
单选题According to Donald Kroodsma, ______ as "rapid cultural evolution within each generation".
单选题It isestimated that a scientific principle has a life expectancy of approximately a decade before it drastically revised or replaced by newer information.A.estimated B.a life expectancy C.decade D.it drastically
单选题She told her parents that she had decided to marry him, ______a prince or a pauper.
单选题They awoke to find toe maid had left the remnants of dinner on the table.
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单选题Mr John is not ______ now, but be will be well-known someday.
单选题The town was flooded when the river burst its banks. To make it worse, the storm______ outside.
单选题The Longman dictionary is more likely to be criticized for cultural prejudice because ______.
