做操考研英语阅读真题解析下

考研英语阅读真题解析下

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will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial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

industrials

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

Germans,

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. I

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.

Th

at 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

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