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A great number of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide — 1.______ the division of the world into the in
A great number of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide — 1.______ the division of the world into the in
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2011-07-28
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A great number of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide — 1.______
the division of the world into the info 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. Actually, there are reasons to be pessimistic. 2.______
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow.
As the Internet becomes more and more commercializing, it is in the interest 3.______
of business to universalize access - in all, the more people online, the more 4.______
potential customers there are. More and more governments, are afraid their 5.______
countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the next
decade or two, one to two billions people on the planet will be netted together. 6.______
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 the 7.______
most powerful tool for combating world poverty that we’ve ever had.
To take advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get off 8.______
their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment.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. When the
United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn’t have the capital to do
such. And that is why America’s Second Wave infrastructure - including roads, 9.______
harbors, highways, ports, etc. - are built with foreign investment. 10.______
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答案
billions——billion
解析
本题为数词误用。billion和基数词搭配时,不需要用复数形式。
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