1、本文格式為 Word 版，下載可編輯 PAGE 5 / 52022 年考研英語閱讀理解及答案解析信息科學類A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so called digital dividethe division of the world into the info（information） rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wifeand I lectured about this looming danger twenty year

2、s ago. What waslessvisiblethen,however, werethenew, positiveforces thatworkagainstthedigitaldivide.Therearereasonstobe optimistic.Therearetechnologicalreasonstohopethe digitaldividewillnarrow. AstheInternetbecomesmoreand more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize accessaf

3、ter all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, 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 t

4、he 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 combating world poverty that weve ever had. Of course, the use of the Internet isnt the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is not the o

5、nly tool本文格式為 Word 版，下載可編輯we have. But it has enormous potential.To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over theiroutdatedanticolonialprejudiceswithrespecttoforeign investment.Countriesthatstillthinkforeigninvestmentisan invasionoftheirsovereigntymightwellstudyt

6、hehistoryofinfrastructure（the basic structural foundations of a society）intheUnitedStates.WhentheUnitedStatesbuiltitsindustrial infrastructure, it didnt have the capital to do so. And that is why AmericasSecondWave infrastructureincludingroads, harbors, highways,portsandsoonwerebuiltwithforeigninves

7、tment. TheEnglish,theGerman,theDutchandtheFrenchwere investinginBritainsformer colony. They financed them. Immigrant Americans built them. Guess who owns them now?The Americans believe the same thing would be true in placeslike Brazil or anywhere else for that matter. The more foreign capitalyouhave

8、helpingyoubuildyourThirdWave infrastructure,whichtodayisanelectronicinfrastructure,the better off youre going to be. That doesnt mean lying down and becomingfooled,orlettingforeigncorporationsrun uncontrolled. But it does mean recognizing how important they can be in building the energy and telecom

9、infrastructures neededto take full advantage of the Internet.55Digital divide issomething. Agetting worse because of the InternetBthe rich countries are responsible for Cthe world must guard against D considered positive today 56Governments attach importance to the Internet because it .Aoffers econo

10、mic potentials Bcan bring foreign fundsCcan soon wipe out world povertyDconnects people all over the world57The writer mentioned the case of the UnitedStatestojustifythepolicyof.Aproviding financial support overseasBpreventing foreign capitals controlCbuildingindustrialinfrastructureD acceptingforei

11、gninvestment58 Itseemsthatnowa countryseconomydependsmuchon.Ahowwell developed it is electronicallyBwhether it is prejudiced againstimmigrants C whether it adopts Americas industrial pattern Dhow much control it has over foreign corporations 核心詞匯： attachE5tAtFv.系，貼， 裝，連接；使成為一部分；使依戀（ at+tach 釘子附上） at

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13、verishim5pCvEriFv.使貧困；使枯竭； 同根詞：poverty（貧困）pover+ty 名詞后綴。infrastructure5infrE9strQktFEn.基礎結構，基礎設施（infra 內+struct+ure名詞后綴基礎結構）invasionin5veiVEnn.入侵,侵略, 侵害（in+vas+ion名詞后綴）investmentin5vestmEnt n.投資,投資額loomlu:mn.織布機,織機v.隱現(xiàn),迫近prejudice5predVudisn.偏見,成見;損害,侵害 v.使抱偏見,損害（pre 預先+judice 預先推斷偏見）respectris5pekt n./v.敬重,敬重 n.敬意,問候,關系,方面（re 再+spect 反復看敬重）responsibleris5pCnsEbla.擔當責任;（指人）牢靠的,可信任