1、考研英語(真題)閱讀理解專題（六） A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so called digital divide-the division of the world into the info（infor _tion） rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then

2、, however, were the new, positive for _s that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic. There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Inter bees more and more mercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize aess-after all, th

3、e more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more gover _ents, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Inter aess. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the pla will be ted together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will

4、 narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Inter _y well be the most powerful tool for bating world poverty that weve ever had. Of course, the use of the Inter isnt the only way to defeat poverty. And the Inter is not the only tool we have. But it has enormo

5、us potential. To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudi _s with respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty might well study the history of infrastructure

6、 （the basic structural foundations of a society） in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didnt have the capital to do so. And that is why Americas Second Wave infrastructure-including roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign inves

7、tment. The English, the Ger _ns, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britain former colony. They finan _d them. Immigrant Americans built them. Guess who owns them now? The Americans. I believe the same thing would be true in pla _s like Brazil or anywhere else for that _tter. The more foreig

8、n capital you have helping you build your Third Wave infrastructure, which today is an electronic infrastructure, the better off youre going to be. That doesnt mean lying down and being fooled, or letting foreign corporations run uncontrolled. But it does mean recognizing how important they can be i

9、n building the energy and tele infrastructures needed to take full advantage of the Inter. 1.Digital divide is something _. Agetting worse because of the Inter Bthe rich countries are responsible for Cthe world must guard against Dconsidered positive today 2.Gover _ents attach importan _ to the Inte

10、r because it _. Aoffers economic potentials Bcan bring foreign funds Ccan soon wipe out world poverty Dconnects people all over the world 3.The writer mentioned the case of the United States to justify the policy of _. Aproviding financial support overseas Bpreventing foreign capitals control Cbuilding industrial infrastructure Daepting foreign investment 4.It seems that now a countrys economy depends much on _. Ahow well developed it is electronically Bwhether