A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digitaldivide--the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor. And that __1__ does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less __2__ then, however, were the new, positive __3__ that work against the digital divide.__4__,there are reasons to be __5__.There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more __6__, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, the more potential __7__ there are. More and more __8__, afraid their countries will be left __9__, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be __10__ together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will __11__ rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for __12__ world poverty that we’ve ever had.Of course, the use of the Internet isn’t the only way to __13__ poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has __14__ potential.To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an __17__ of their sovereignty might well study the history of __18__ (the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the UnitedStates built its industrial infrastructure, it didn’t have the capital to do so. And that is __19__ America’s Second Wave infrastructure-__20__ roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.__1. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture__2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct__3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises__4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously__5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed__6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized__7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens__8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers__9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind__10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized__11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low__12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating__13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear__14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big__15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take__16. A) at B) with C) of D) for__17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult__18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution__19. A) why B) where C) when D) how__20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including参考答案：由文中第一行的digital divide得出答案。

obscure模糊的，不清楚的；visible看得见的，明显的；invisible 看不见的；indistinct不清楚的，模糊的。

空格前的less已有否定意义force力量，武力；obstacle障碍；event事件；surprise惊奇，诧异。

句意：现在有新的、乐观的力量来对抗数字鸿沟。

seriously认真地；entirely完全的；actually实际上；continuously 连续地。

negative消极的；optimistic乐观的；pleasant令人愉快的；disappointed令人失望的。

前文说有积极的力量在对抗数字鸿沟的不利因素，因此，实际上我们有理由保持乐观的态度。

develop发展；centralize集中；realize认识到；commercialize使商业化，由下文“网络有利于商业途径的普及”，可知此处表述的意思是网络越来越商业化。

in the interest of...为了...的利益user使用者；producer生产者；customer消费者；citizen公民。

句意：越多的人上网就有越多的潜在消费者。

enterprise企业，事业；government政府；official官员；句意：越来越多的政府害怕他们的国家...leave behind 留下，超过与leave相关的短语：leave aside把某事搁置一边leave out 省去，遗漏，不考虑leave off 停止，不再穿网络把人们联系在一起，选netteddecrease减少，narrow变窄；neglect忽视，疏忽；low降低句意：因此，我现在认为数字鸿沟是在变窄而不是在拓宽contain包含，容纳；prevent防止，阻止；keep保留，保持；combat 战斗，搏斗win赢得；detail详述，细说；defeat击败，战胜；fear畏惧。

enormous巨大的；countless无数的；numerical数字的。

potential 作名词为不可数，不能用countless修饰，big一般表示尺寸、数字、范围上的大。

take advantage of 利用with respect to 关于，至于with也可换成in.表示关于的还有with regard to,concerning等。

offence冒犯；investment投资；invasion入侵；insult侮辱construction建筑；facility设备；infrastructure基础设施；institution 公共机构，制度。

从后文中出现的infrastructure可以轻易得到答案。

表语从句，表示原因，“这也就是为什么...”concerning关于；concluding结束的；according根据；including包括An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students’ career prospects and those arguing for computers in the classroom for broader reasons of radical educational reform. Very fewwriters on the subject have explored this __1__—indeed, contradiction—which goes to the heart of what is wrong with the __2__ to put computers in the classroom.An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of job isa/an __3__ education, justified for reasons radically different from why education is __4__ required by law. It is not simply to __5__ everyone’s job prospects that all children are legally __6__ to attend school into their , we have a certain __7__ of the American citizen,a character who is __8__ if he cannot competently assess __9__ his livelihood and happiness are affected by things __10__ of himself.But this was not always the case; before it was legally required for all children to attend school until a certain __11__, it was widely accepted that some were just not equipped __12__ nature to pursue this kind of optimism characteristic of all industrialized countries, we came to accept that everyone is __13__ to be educated. Computer-education advocates __14__ this optimistic notion for a pessimism that __15__ their otherwise cheery outlook. __16__ on the confusion between educational and vocational reasons for bringing computers into schools,computer-education advocates often __17__ the job prospects of graduates over their educational __18__.There are some good arguments for a technical education given the right kind of student. Many European schools __19__ the concept ofprofessional training early on in order to make sure children are __20__ equipped for the professions they want to join.1.[A]distinction [B]topic [C]separation [D]education2.[A]campaign [B]practice [C]action [D]goal3.[A]informal [B]basic [C]technical [D]expensive4.[A]differently [B]universally [C]conversely [D]regularly5.[A]form [B]consist [C]arise [D]raise6.[A]ordered [B]inquired [C]required [D]acquired7.[A]conception [B]information [C]theme [D]imagination8.[A]complete [B]accomplished [C]incomplete [D]improper9.[A]why [B]what [C]where [D]how10.[A]inside [B]outside [C]beside [D]aside11.[A]year [B]age [C]day [D]extent12.[A]in [B]at [C]by [D]with13.[A]fit [B]responsible [C]suitable [D]able14.[A]consider [B]forget [C]forsake [D]foretell15.[A]believes [B]becomes [C]bears [D]betrays16.[A]Encountering [B]Banking [C]Devising [D]Seeking17.[A]emphasize [B]encourage [C]engage [D]enlarge18.[A]academy [B]position [C]degree [D]achievement19.[A]interact [B]introduce [C]announce [D]invent20.[A]traditionally [B]drastically [C]properly [D]hardly答案：1~5 AACBD 6~10 CACDB11~15 BCACD 16~20 AADBCHave you ever wondered what our future is likePractically all people _1_ a desire to predict their future people seem inclined to _3_ this task using causal we _4_ recognize that future circumstances are _5_ caused or conditioned by present learn that getting an education will _6_ how much money we earn later and that swimming beyond the reef may bring an unhappy _7_ with a shark.Second,people also learn that such _8_ of cause and effect are probabilistic(可能的) in is,the effects occur more often when the causes occur than when the causes are _9_, but not ,students learn that studying hard _10_ good grades in most instances,but not every makes these concepts of causality and probability more _11_ and provides techniques for dealing _12_ then more accurately than does causal human looking at ordinary human inquiry,we need to _13_ between prediction and ,even if we don't understand why,we are willing to act _14_ the basis of a demonstrated predictive ability.Whatever the primitive drives _15_ motivate human beings,satisfying them depends heavily on the ability to _16_ future attempt to predict is often played in a _17_ of knowledge and you can understand why certain regular patterns_18_,you can predict better than if you simply observe those ,human inquiry aims _19_ answering both "what" and "why" question,and we pursue these _20_ by observing and figuring out.1. [A]exhibit [B]exaggerate [C]examine [D]exceed2. [A]contexts [B]circumstances [C]inspections [D]intuitions3.[A]underestimate [B]undermine [C]undertake [D]undergo4. [A]specially [B]particularly [C]always [D]generally5. [A]somehow [B]somebody [C]someone [D]something6. [A]enact [B]affect [C]reflect [D]inflect7. [A]meeting [B]occurrence [C]encounter [D]contact8. [A]patterns [B]designs [C]arrangements[D]pictures9. [A]disappointde [B]absent [C]inadequate [D]absolute10.[A]creates [B]produces [C]loses [D]protects11.[A]obscure [B]indistinct [C]explicit [D]explosive12.[A]for [B]at [C]in [D]with13.[A]distinguish [B]distinct [C]distort [D]distract14.[A]at [B]on [C]to [D]under15.[A]why [B]how [C]that [D]where16.[A]predict [B]produce [C]pretend [D]precede17.[A]content [B]contact [C]contest [D]context18.[A]happen [B]occur [C]occupy [D]incur19.[A]at [B]on [C]to [D]beyond20.[A]purposes [B]ambitions [C]drives [D]goals参考答案：词义辨析exhibit"展出，表现",exaggerate"夸张",exceed"超越，胜过" 原句意为：实际上，人们会对未来的生活怀有（展示出）一定的愿望。