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 twent

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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 But it has enormous potential.To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to getover their outdated anticolonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment.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

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  • 第1题：

    Importing and exporting is transferring goods from one country to another while _______ attention to the laws and requirements of bringing goods out or into that country.

    A、to pay

    B、paying

    C、being paid


    参考答案：B

  • 第2题：

    room, patiently nurses, and a great deal of time to read.


    正确答案：
    80. patient

  • 第3题：

    Now the way employees ( ) has changed, with their salaries ( )automatically into their bank accounts.

    A、pay/ paid

    B、paid/ are paid

    C、are paying/ being paid

    D、are paid/ paid


    参考答案：D

  • 第4题：

    Today, many cultures divide music______ art music and music of the people.

    A、from

    B、into

    C、over

    D、beneath


    参考答案：B

  • 第5题：

    【T7】

    A.POSITIVE

    B.BEHIND

    C.RESULT A.AFRAID THEIR COUNTRIES WILL BE LEFT【T7】______

    B.WHAT WAS LESS VISIBLE THEN, HOWEVER, WERE THE NEW,【T8】______FORCES

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    E. THERE ARE REASONS TO BE OPTIMISTI

    C.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 AR

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    D.AND THAT IS VERY GOOD NEWS BECAUSE THE INTERNET MAY WELL BE THE MOST POWERFUL TOOL FOR COMBATING WORLD POVERTY THAT WE"VE EVER HA

    D.


    正确答案：behind
    本题主要考查固定搭配。“leftbehind”为固定搭配，是“遗留，留下”的意思，符合题意。所以，答案是behind。

  • 第6题：

    When the inert gas pressure is being ______ in the cargo tanks，particular attention should be paid to obtaining an oxygen concentration．

    A.topped up

    B.braced

    C.tommed down

    D.shored


    正确答案：A

  • 第7题：


    What in the passage is mentioned as being truly remarkable？( )

    A.Many of his observations are still visible and meaningful today.
    B.The book was so detailed and thorough after only such a comparatively short visit.
    C.The second volume should be so pessimistic in comparison with the first.
    D.De Tocqueville’s powers of observation.

    答案：A
    解析：

  • 第8题：

    单选题
    Attention is called to the fact that in many cases pipelines are not （） and charted depths may be decreased by up to 2 meters．
    A

    concealed

    B

    buried

    C

    existed

    D

    built


    正确答案： C
    解析： 暂无解析

  • 第9题：

    单选题
    Which of the following is TRUE?
    A

    In the 1920s, women were limited to being teachers, nurses or office workers.

    B

    Women mainly paid their attention to how they were paid in the 1960s.

    C

    Women asked to change “all men are created equal” into “all human beings are created equal”.

    D

    No states have ever provided women with jobs in the government.


    正确答案： A
    解析：
    推理判断题。从文章的第四段第一句话The Women’s Liberation movement, which developed during the 1960s, has focused on economic rights such as ‘equal pay for equal work’ 可知，在20世纪60年代，美国妇女的权利运动主要集中在同工同酬方面，主要关注的是自己的经济地位。所以B项正确。A项错误，倒数第二段末句提到女性的职业主要有teachers, nurses or office workers，而不是在这几个职业上受到限制。C项错误，由末句可知，是妇女解放运动的领导认为all men are created equal的意思是所有人类平等，而不是只有男人平等。D项错误，由with jobs in the government.定位倒数第二段倒数第二句，可知只有很少的妇女在学术和政府方面担任高层。

  • 第10题：

    单选题
    In the last few years, our company ______ a great deal of attention to building up company culture.
    A

    pays

    B

    would pay

    C

    is paying

    D

    has been paying


    正确答案： D
    解析：
    本题考查完成进行时的用法。句意：在过去几年中，我们公司一直都非常重视企业文化的建设。本句强调从过去某时开始一直持续进行的动作，并且还将持续下去，因此应用过去完成时。故D项为正确答案。

  • 第11题：

    单选题
    What is the main theme of the passage?
    A

    Having a goal is vital to success.

    B

    Being good is different from being great.

    C

    One cannot succeed without time and practice.

    D

    Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.


    正确答案： C
    解析：
    由第二段开头的转折词However可知，本文的中心论题是第二段的“to succeed in life, one first needs to…”，而不是在第一段；结合后文关于成功的因素的讲述，及末段第一句“if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time.”，可知本文主要讲述不花费精力是不可能取得成功的，C项与此一致。

  • 第12题：

    单选题
    From the passage we learn that______.
    A

    Toronto spends lots of money yearly developing the city

    B

    some local residents showed a great interest in protecting the city's cultural site

    C

    the City Council of Toronto hasn't paid sufficient attention to the protection of the city's culture

    D

    the City Hall is still the largest city building in North America today


    正确答案： B
    解析：

  • 第13题：

    The country has ______people and ______money ______spent on tobacco every year.

    A. a large quantity of, a number of, are

    B. plenty of, a great deal, are

    C. a great deal of, plenty of, is

    D. a large number of, a large amount of, is


    正确答案：D
    10．答案为D  参考译文：这个国家有很多人并且每年把大量的金钱花费在烟草上。此题考查名词的数。“人民”是可数名词，可以用a large number of或a number of修饰。“金钱”是不可数名词，作主语时为单数，可以用a large amount of或a great deal of以及a large quantity of和plenty of等短语修饰。

  • 第14题：

    Nowadays, more and more attention is being paid ______ “Business Ethics”.

    A. to

    B. for

    C. of


    参考答案：A

  • 第15题：

    Today, many cultures divide music into art music and music of the people.


    正确答案：今天，许多文化将音乐分为艺术音乐和大众音乐。

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    What attention should be paid when bunkering oil in the USA?


    正确答案：It is most complex and strict to bunker oil in the USA. Many rules are regulated in the port of USA. For instance, the oil man on the behalf of the ship submits preparation measures to harbour. Check all items in check list, by yes (√), no (×). According to the requirements, hoisting oil bunkering flag and plugging all sea valves are necessary. A bulletin written in "NO SMOKING" is ready for use. Stop loading or unloading operations on deck. Don

  • 第17题：

    It can be inferred from the passage that early historians of women’s labor in the United States paid little attention to women’s employment in the service sector of the economy because________．

    A．fewer women found employment in the service sector than in factory work

    B．the wages paid to workers in the service sector were much lower than those paid in the industrial sector

    C．women’s employment in the service sector tended to be much more short—term than in factory work

    D．employment in the service sector seemed to have much in common with the unpaid work associated with homemaking


    正确答案：D
    本题和上题的根据同出一处，根据上题答案，选项D正确，服务行业之所以所以少受早期历史学家关注，是因为它看上去和妇女无报酬的家务劳动太相像。

  • 第18题：

    An operating system also has to be able to service peripheral（ ）,such as timers,motors,sensors,communicationdevices,disks,etc.All of those can request the attention of the OS（ ）,i.e.at the time that they want to use the OS,theOS has to make sure it's ready to service the requests.Such a request for attention is called an interrupt.There are twokinds of interrupts:Hardware interrupts and Software interrupts.The result of an inteiTup:is also a triggering of theprocessor,so that it jumps to a（ ）address.Examples of cases where software interrupts appear are perhaps a divide by zero,a memory segmentation fault,etc.So this kind of interrupt is not caused by a hardware event but by a specificmachine language operation code.Many systems have more than one hardware interrupt line,and the hardwaremanufacturer typically assembles all these interrupt lines in an interrupt（请作答此空）.An Interrupt（ ）is a piece of hardware that shields the OS from the electronic details of the interrupt lines,so that interrupts can be queued and none of themgets lost.

    A.vector
    B.array
    C.queue
    D.ist

    答案：A
    解析：

  • 第19题：

    单选题
    Nancy had a great deal of trouble to concentrate on her work because of the noise in the next room
    A

    a great deal of

    B

    to concentrate on

    C

    because of

    D

    in


    正确答案： B
    解析：

  • 第20题：

    单选题
    Which of the following statements about the Grimm’s fairy tales is TRUE according to the passage?
    A

    They were originally intended to be children’s stories.

    B

    Generally speaking, the tales that have endured can help children deal with the challenges life bring to them.

    C

    A large number of the tales made it to the modem age.

    D

    They are less violent than the children's stories being written today.


    正确答案： B
    解析：
    根据文章最后一句“But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.”可知这些故事能够广为流传的深层次原因是它们能帮助孩子们应对生活中的困难和恐惧。这与选项B的说法一致。

  • 第21题：

    单选题
    Today, many cultures divide music（）art music and music of the people.
    A

    from

    B

    into

    C

    over

    D

    beneath


    正确答案： A
    解析： 暂无解析

  • 第22题：

    单选题
    The last two paragraphs of the passage can be perceived as ______.
    A

    the summary of the whole passage

    B

    the introduction of the concept “digital divide”

    C

    the prediction about America in the new century

    D

    the warning of issues behind technological progress


    正确答案： D
    解析：
    题目问的是：文章最后两段可以作为什么？最后两段主要涉及到贫富差距悬殊可能带来的坏处，可以作为科技进步背后的警告。故选D。

  • 第23题：

    问答题
    本书共分十个单元，内容涉及计算机应用。(divide；deal with)

    正确答案： This book, which is divided into ten units, deals with computer applications.
    解析：
    本句翻译采用了合译法，将前半句用定语从句转化为定语。application应用。

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