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  3. A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so called digital divide the division of the world into the info (informat

A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so called digital divide the division of the world into the info (informat

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问题     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. 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. 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    To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries Will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment.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 in the United States. 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. 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.
What should we do for the digital division, according to the author?
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答案We must guard against it.
解析 这是一道段落内容综合推断题。第一段中作者写道“现在人们十分注意所谓数字化划分问题”，接着又写道"20年前我妻子和我就谈及这种隐约的危险，然而，当时看起来还不太清楚的事是抵制数字化划分的新的积极的因素。我们有理由感到乐观。”综合上述内容，作者认为，数字化划分是人们关注的问题，而且是一种“危险”，并指出有许多“新的积极的因素”来“抵制数字化划分”，而且对此“感到乐观”。可见，数字化划分是“世界必须防范”的事。
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