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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 mere 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
A. providing financial support overseas
B. preventing foreign capital's control
C. building industrial infrastructure
D. accepting foreign investment

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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 mere 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
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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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 th
A. offers economic potentials
B. can bring foreign funds
C. can soon wipe out world poverty
D. connects people all over the world

[单项选择]Although tile media have paid a great deal of attention to telecommuting, in most cases it is the employee's situations, not the availability of technology, that ______ a telecommuting arrangement.
A. precipitates
B. reciprocates
C. anticipates
D. apprehends

[单项选择]Although the media have paid a great deal of attention to telecommuting, in most cases it is the employee's situations, not the availability of technology, that ______ a telecommuting arrangement.
A. precipitates
B. reciprocates
C. anticipates
D. apprehends

[单项选择]Jane (had) a great (deal of) trouble (to concentrate on) her study (because of) the noise in the next room.
A. had
B. deal of
C. to concentrate on
D. because of

[单项选择]She traveled a great deal（）
A. so most of her friends did
B. as did most of her friends
C. most of her friends did so
D. most of her friends did it

[单项选择]Advertising helps a great deal to improve the standard of living.
A. 广告在提高人们生活水平方面起了很大的作用。
B. 广告提高了人们的生活标准。
C. 生活水平改善了广告的标准。
D. 广告帮助了很多人提高了生活水平。

[单项选择]The design of this architecture shows a great deal of ________We have never seen a building of such a type before.
A. conventionality
B. originality
C. formulation
D. fascination