首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the division of the world into the info (informati
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the division of the world into the info (informati
admin
2013-03-08
18
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. 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To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment.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 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.
Governments attach importance to the Internet because it______.
选项
A、offers economic potentials
B、can bring foreign funds
C、can soon wipe out world poverty
D、connects people all over the world
答案
A
解析
细节题。第二段第二句告诉我们:随着因特网越来越商业化,普及因特网也就成了商家的利益所在。因为上网的人越多,潜在的顾客也就越多。接着第三句说:因担心自己的国家落后于别的国家,越来越多的政府希望人们上网。第二段最后指出:因特网很有可能是我们消除贫穷的最强大的工具。接着第三段又讲到:因特网具有巨大的经济潜能。所以,选项[A]为正确答案:政府重视因特网是因为因特网提供了经济潜力。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/x0xd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Helandedinthiscountrywhenhewas4yearsoldwithoutawordofEnglish,andtherehehasrecentlygraduatedwithhonorsfro
【61】TheChineseConstitutionstipulatesthatwomenenjoyequalpoliticalrightswithmenandtheyalsoenjoytheequalright
Accordingtothepassage,whichcountry’sstudentsscoredthehighestinmath?
Accordingtothepassage,whichcountry’sstudentsscoredthehighestinmath?
Howtogetoverthefirststeptowritealetter?
MarkTwain’sletterabouttheStatueofLiberty______.
Howtogetoverthefirststeptowritealetter?
Volcanicfireandglacialicearenaturalenemies.Eruptionsatglaciatedvolcanoestypicallydestroyicefields,astheydidin
Ahistoryoflongandeffortlesssuccesscanbeadreadfulhandicap,but,ifproperlyhandled,itmaybecomeadrivingforce.Wh
winning分析见第2题。
随机试题
Well,let’sputourheadstogetherandfinda(n)______totheproblem.
引起牙髓活力电测验假阳性反应的原因正确的是
A.证候相兼B.证候错杂C.证候真假D.证候转化E.合病并病
市场利率上升,标的物期限较长的国债期货合约价格的跌幅会大于期限较短的国债期货合约价格的跌幅。()
公安执法监督的重要意义包括()。
下列选项中,不属于清末“百日维新”中的教育改革措施的是()。
西方的法治,尽管并不排斥道德,但无疑在宣扬法律至上的同时有意无意地忽略了道德,西方社会普遍存在的情感危机与道德沦丧就是明证;传统的德治却是主张德主刑辅,法是德的附庸,贬抑了法的作用,也与时代的发展不相适应。所以,对二者都要加以扬弃和改造,抽取各自的合理内核
假设磁盘块与缓冲区大小相同,每个盘块读入缓冲区的时间为16us,由缓冲区送至用户区的时间是5us,在用户区内系统对每块数据的处理时间为1us。若用户需要将大小为10个磁盘块的Doc1文件逐块从磁盘读入缓冲区,并送至用户区进行处理,那么采用单缓冲区需要花费的
可作为报表记录源的是()。
如果在被调用的过程中改变了形参变量的值,但又不影响实参变量本身,这种参数传递方式称为()。
最新回复
(
0
)