单选题The last two paragraphs of the passage can be perceived as ______.A the summary of the whole passageB the introduction of the concept “digital divide”C the prediction about America in the new centuryD the warning of issues behind technological progress

The best title for the passage is _____.

［A］ Education and Progress

［B］ Old and New Social Norms

［C］ New Education: Opportunities for More

［D］ Demerits of Hierarchical Society

选择一个适当的句子放在②处_______

A. First impressions last longest.

B. Everyone was new to the network once.

C. The internet has opened up a whole new world for us.

D. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before saying anything.

The author of the passage advises us to do all the following EXCEPT______.

A. we should think before, while and after we read a passage

B. we'd better look up every new word in a dictionary

C. we should learn to guess the meanings of new words

D. the clues in a passage should be made use of

What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?

A. More time should be spent on computers.

B. Children should be forbidden from watching TV.

C. TV sets shouldn’t be allowed in children’s bedrooms.

D. Further studies on high-achieving students should be done.

Passage 2 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 ue 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 getover 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 industrials infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so. And that is why America's Second Wave infrastructure — including roads, barbors, highways, prots 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 means recognizing how important they can be in building the energy and telecom infrastructures needed to take full advantage of the Internet.

第55题：Digital divide is something _______ .

A getting worse because of the Internet

B the rich countries are responsible for

C the world must guard against

D considered positive today

It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that_____.

［A］ Sony: The Private Life is the biography of Akio Morita

［B］ Sony’s Japanese leaders have been too practical-minded

［C］ this management problem of Sony cannot be rectified overnight

［D］ Nathan did not write about how Sony established itself as the electronics giant