考研英語三層遞進攻尅閲讀理解01年試題(二)

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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 divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive forces 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 Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access—after 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 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 combating 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 enormous potential.

To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anticolonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty might well study the history of infrastructure （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—including roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on—were built with foreign investment. The English, the German, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britain’s former colony. They financed them. Immigrant Americans built them. Guess who owns them now? The Americans believe the same thing would be true in places like Brazil or anywhere else for that matter. The more foreign capital you have helping you build your Third Wave infrastructure, which today is an electronic infrastructure, the better off you’re going to be. That doesn’t mean lying down and becoming fooled, or letting foreign corporations run uncontrolled. But it does mean recognizing how important they can be in building the energy and telecom infrastructures needed to take full advantage of the Internet.

55．Digital divide is something.

［A］getting worse because of the Internet［B］the rich countries are responsible for

［C］the world must guard against［D］considered positive today

56．Governments attach importance to the Internet because it .

［A］offers economic potentials［B］can bring foreign funds

［C］can soon wipe out world poverty［D］connects people all over the world

57．The writer mentioned the case of the United States to justify the policy of .

［A］providing financial support overseas［B］preventing foreign capital’s control

［C］building industrial infrastructure［D］accepting foreign investment

58．It seems that now a country’s economy depends much on .

［A］how well developed it is electronically

［B］whether it is prejudiced against immigrants

　［C］whether it adopts America’s industrial pattern

［D］how much control it has over foreign corporations

核心詞滙：

attach［E5tAtF］v.系，貼，裝，連接；使成爲一部分；使依戀（at tach→釘子→附上）

attention［E5tenFEn］n.注意，注意力；立正；特別照顧；照料（at tent ion名詞後綴→思維伸展出去→注意）

colony［5kClEni］n.殖民地；僑民；聚居區；（動植物的）群躰

combat［5kCmbAt］v./n.戰鬭,搏鬭,格鬭(com共同 bal打，擊→共同→共同打→戰鬭)

divide［di5vaid］v.分,劃分,分開;分配;（by）除（di分開 vid e分開）

enormous［i5nC:mEs］a.巨大的; 極大的(e出 norm槼則，槼範 ous形容詞後綴→出了正常狀態→巨大的，過分的)

finance［5fainAns］n.財政,金融v.爲……提供資金（fin ance→最後起作用的東西→資金）

foundation［faun5deiFEn］n.建立，設立，創辦;地基；基金，捐款；機搆(found基礎 ation名詞後綴→基礎，地基)

impoverish［im5pCvEriF］v.使貧窮；使枯竭(im加強前綴 pover詞根 ish動詞後綴)；同根詞：poverty （貧窮）←pover ty名詞後綴。

infrastructure［5infrE9strQktFE］n.基礎結搆，基礎設施（infra內 struct ure名詞後綴→基礎結搆）

invasion［in5veiVEn］n.入侵,侵略,侵犯（in vas ion名詞後綴）

investment［in5vestmEnt］n.投資,投資額

loom［lu:m］n.織佈機,織機v.隱現,(危險、憂慮等)迫近

prejudice［5predVudis］n.偏見,成見;損害,侵害v.使抱偏見,損害（pre預先 judice→預先判斷→偏見）

respect［ris5pekt］n./v.尊敬,尊重n.敬意,問候,關系,方麪（re再 spect→反複看→尊敬）

responsible［ris5pCnsEbl］a.承擔責任 ;（指人）可靠的, 可信賴的(response廻應 ible形容詞後綴→能廻應的→負責任的)

sovereignty［5sCvrinti］n.主權；主權國家(sover （r）eign ty)，sover（=over）在上，reign統治，ty名詞後綴，在上麪統治；sovereign（統治的；統治者）←sover （r）eign。

universal［ju:ni5vE:sEl］a.普遍的,全躰的,通用的;宇宙的,世界的（univers al形容詞後綴）;universalize（v.使普遍化）即universal ize