Part ⅤClose (15 minutes)

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

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 __62__ does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less __63__ then, however, were the new, positive __64__ that work against the digital divide. __65__,there are reasons to be __66__.

There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more __67__, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, the more potential __68__ there are. More and more __69__, afraid their countries will be left __70__, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be __71__ together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will __72__ rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for __73__ world poverty that we've ever had.

Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to __74__ poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has __75__ potential.

To __76__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __77__ respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an __78__ of their sovereignty might well study the history of __79__ (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 __80__ America's Second Wave infrastructure-__81__ roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.

62. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture

63. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct

64. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises

65. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously

66. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed

67. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized

68. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens

69. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers

70. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind

71. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized

72. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low

73. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating

74. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear

75. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big

76. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take

77. A) at B) with C) of D) for

78. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult

79. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution

80. A) why B) where C) when D) how

81. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including