2015年MBA联考英语阅读练习题1
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so called digitaldivide-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 use 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
get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign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 industrial infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so.
And that is why America's Second Wave infrastructure-including roads, harbors,
highways, ports 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 mean recognizing how important they can be in building the energy and
telecom infrastructures needed to take full advantage of the Internet.
1.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
2.Governments attach importance to the Internet because it _________.
A.offers economic potentials
B.can bring foreign funds
C.can soon wipe out world poverty
D.connects people all over the world
3.The writer mentioned the case of the United States to justify the policy
of _________.
A.providing financial support overseas
B.preventing foreign capital's control
C.building industrial infrastructure
D.accepting foreign investment
4.It seems that now a country's economy depends much on _________.
A.how well developed it is electronically
B.whether it is prejudiced against immigrants
C.whether it adopts America's industrial pattern
D.how much control it has over foreign corporations
参考答案：C A D A
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