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In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communication
In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communication
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2010-02-20
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问题
In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a "digital divide." Yet the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth that plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such Wandwavingthrough the construction of specific local infrastructure projects such as rural telecenters—is just the sort of thing for which the UN’s new fund is intended.
This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes. The benefits of building rural computing centers, for example, are unclear. Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottomup development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the Internet, but of mobile phones.
The following passage will probably be:
选项
A、How to promote using of mobile phones.
B、How to use technology to promote bottomup development.
C、The benefits of building rural computing centers.
D、How to meet the need of food, health and security in poor countries.
答案
B
解析
本题用排除法:移动电话只是一个例子来说明更加基础的设备,所以答案A错误。建造乡村电脑中心的好处与文章说明的问题无关,所以答案C错误。解决粮食、健康、安全保障的问题范围过于宽广与本文主旨无关,所以答案D错,最后得出答案为B。
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大学英语四级
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