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In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communication
In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communication
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2010-02-20
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In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a "digital divide." Yet the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth that plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such Wandwavingthrough the construction of specific local infrastructure projects such as rural telecenters—is just the sort of thing for which the UN’s new fund is intended.
This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes. The benefits of building rural computing centers, for example, are unclear. Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottomup development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the Internet, but of mobile phones.
We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that:
选项
A、people in poor countries cannot use computer because of illiteracy.
B、poor people cannot use computers.
C、there would be no magic to cause a computer to appear in every household on earth.
D、people in poor countries need more basic living conditions than computers.
答案
D
解析
文章的大意是穷国更需要基础设施和帮助,而第二段作者通过举例和论证说明了论点,所以本题选D。第二段虽然说了,穷国的人民因为没有文化而不能使用计算机,但这不是全部的原因,所以A错。答案B过于笼统,只说穷人无法使用电脑,而文章说明了穷人不能使用电脑是有具体原因的,所以B错。让每个家庭都有一台电脑是作者的一个假设,用于说明穷人无法使用电脑的原因,而不是讨论这个假设可不可能实现,所以C错。
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