大學(xué)英語(yǔ)六級(jí)完形填空提升練習(xí)八
來源:中華考試網(wǎng)發(fā)布時(shí)間:2011-12-09
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 __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To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment.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 United States 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
參考答案及解析:
1.A 由文中第一行的digital divide得出答案。
2.B obscure模糊的,不清楚的;visible看得見的,明顯的;invisible看不見的;indistinct不清楚的,模糊的�?崭袂暗膌ess已有否定意義
3.A force力量,武力;obstacle障礙;event事件;surprise驚奇,詫異。句意:現(xiàn)在有新的、樂觀的力量來對(duì)抗數(shù)字鴻溝。
4.C seriously認(rèn)真地;entirely完全的;actually實(shí)際上;continuously連續(xù)地。
5.B negative消極的;optimistic樂觀的;pleasant令人愉快的;disappointed令人失望的。前文說有積極的力量在對(duì)抗數(shù)字鴻溝的不利因素,因此,實(shí)際上我們有理由保持樂觀的態(tài)度。
6.D develop發(fā)展;centralize集中;realize認(rèn)識(shí)到;commercialize使商業(yè)化,由下文“網(wǎng)絡(luò)有利于商業(yè)途徑的普及”,可知此處表述的意思是網(wǎng)絡(luò)越來越商業(yè)化。in the interest of……為了……的利益
7.C user使用者;producer生產(chǎn)者;customer消費(fèi)者;citizen公民。句意:越多的人上網(wǎng)就有越多的潛在消費(fèi)者。
8.B enterprise企業(yè),事業(yè);government政府;official官員;句意:越來越多的政府害怕他們的國(guó)家……
9.D leave behind 留下,超過與leave相關(guān)的短語(yǔ):leave aside把某事擱置一邊leave out 省去,遺漏,不考慮leave off 停止,不再穿
10.A 網(wǎng)絡(luò)把人們聯(lián)系在一起,選netted
11.B decrease減少,narrow變窄;neglect忽視,疏忽;low降低 句意:因此,我現(xiàn)在認(rèn)為數(shù)字鴻溝是在變窄而不是在拓寬
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