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  3. 　　A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the division of the world into the info (informa

　　A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the division of the world into the info (informa

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问题 　　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【C1】 ________  does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less【C2】 ________ then, however, were the new, positive【C3】 ________  that work against the digital divide.【C4】 ________  , there are reasons to be【C5】 ________.
    There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more【C6】 ________ , it is in the interest of business to universalize access—after all, the more people online , the more potential【C7】 ________ there are. More and more【C8】 ________ , afraid their countries will be left【C9】 ________ , want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be【C10】 ________ together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will【C11】 ________ rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for 【C12】 ________  world poverty that we’ ve ever had.
    Of course, the use of the Internet isn’ t the only way to 【C13】 ________  poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has 【C14】 ________  potential.
    To【C15】 ________ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices【C16】 ________ respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an【C17】 ________ of their sovereignty (主权) might well study the history of【C18】 ________  (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【C19】 ________ America’ s Second Wave infrastructure【C20】 ________  roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on—were built with foreign investment.
【C18】
选项 A、construction
B、facility
C、infrastructure
D、institution
答案C
解析 construction建筑；facility设备；infrastructure基础设施：institution公共机构。括号里的内容便是对此空的解释，the basic structural foundations of a society意为“社会基础设施”。下文也多次提到了infrastructure此词。
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