[简答题]At a recent Internet culture conference at the MIT in Cambridge, a local ice-cream shop offered to make a custom flavor for the event. After some discussion, the organizers decided that it should be vanilla ice cream mixed with Nerds candies, "because the Internet is primarily white and nerdy," explains Chris Csikszentmihalyi, who directs the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. While a joke, the ice-cream flavor was also a serious commentary on the digital divide that has grown between those who created the Internet--mostly affluent, white, male programmers--and the billions of people with whom they share little in common.
There’s a push among development specialists to provide more people with Internet connections and the assumption that these new Web citizens can then reap the same benefits as communities who’ve long been online. This may not be the case, however. While few people dispute the value of getting the world online, many Internet experts say that current Web content

[多项选择]At a recent Internet culture conference at the MIT in Cambridge, a local ice-cream shop offered to make a custom flavor for the event. After some discussion, the organizers decided that it should be vanilla ice cream mixed with Nerds candies, "because the Internet is primarily white and nerdy," explains Chris Csikszentmihalyi, who directs the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. While a joke, the ice-cream flavor was also a serious commentary on the digital divide that has grown between those who created the Internet--mostly affluent, white, male programmers--and the billions of people with whom they share little in common.
There’s a push among development specialists to provide more people with Internet connections and the assumption that these new Web citizens can then reap the same benefits as communities who’ve long been online. This may not be the case, however. While few people dispute the value of getting the world online, many Internet experts say that current Web content ha

[单项选择]The recent conference on the effective use of the seas and oceans was another attempt resolving major differences among countries with conflicting interests.（　）
A. resolve
B. resolves
C. to resolve
D. being resolved

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[填空题]The Press Conference The press conference has certain advantages. The first advantage lies with the (1)______ nature of (1)______ the event itself; public officials are supposed to submit to scrutiny by responding to various questions at a press conference. Secondly, statements previously made at a press conference can be used as a (2)______in judging following statements or policies. (2)______ Moreover, in case of important events, press confer ences are an effective way to break the news to groups of reporters. However, from the point of view of (3)______, the (3)______ press conference possesses some disadvantages, mainly in its (4)_____and news source. The provider (4)______ virtually determines the manner in which a press conference proceeds. This, sometimes, puts news reporters at a(n) (5)______, as can be seen on live (5)______ broadcasts of news conferences. Factors in getting valuable information —preparation:

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