2011年英語(yǔ)六級(jí)考試完形填空考前強(qiáng)化練習(xí)(9)

　　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 __1__ does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less __2__ then, however, were the new, positive __3__ that work against the digital divide. __4__,there are reasons to be __5__.

　　There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more __6__, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, the more potential __7__ there are. More and more __8__, afraid their countries will be left __9__, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be __10__ together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will __11__ rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for __12__ world poverty that we've ever had.

　　Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to __13__ poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has __14__ potential.

　　To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an __17__ of their sovereignty might well study the history of __18__ (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 __19__ America's Second Wave infrastructure-__20__ roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

　　16. A) at B) with C) of D) for

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

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

　　19. A) why B) where C) when D) how

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


　　參考答案及解析:

　　1.A 由文中第一行的digital divide得出答案。

　　2.B obscure模糊的，不清楚的;visible看得見(jiàn)的，明顯的;invisible看不見(jiàn)的;indistinct不清楚的，模糊的�？崭袂暗膌ess已有否定意義

　　3.A force力量，武力;obstacle障礙;event事件;surprise驚奇，詫異。句意：現(xiàn)在有新的、樂(lè)觀的力量來(lái)對(duì)抗數(shù)字鴻溝。

　　4.C seriously認(rèn)真地;entirely完全的;actually實(shí)際上;continuously連續(xù)地。

　　5.B negative消極的;optimistic樂(lè)觀的;pleasant令人愉快的;disappointed令人失望的。前文說(shuō)有積極的力量在對(duì)抗數(shù)字鴻溝的不利因素，因此，實(shí)際上我們有理由保持樂(lè)觀的態(tài)度。

　　6.D develop發(fā)展;centralize集中;realize認(rèn)識(shí)到;commercialize使商業(yè)化，由下文“網(wǎng)絡(luò)有利于商業(yè)途徑的普及”，可知此處表述的意思是網(wǎng)絡(luò)越來(lái)越商業(yè)化。in the interest of...為了...的利益

　　7.C user使用者;producer生產(chǎn)者;customer消費(fèi)者;citizen公民。句意：越多的人上網(wǎng)就有越多的潛在消費(fèi)者。

　　8.B enterprise企業(yè)，事業(yè);government政府;official官員;句意：越來(lái)越多的政府害怕他們的國(guó)家...

　　9.D leave behind 留下，超過(guò)與leave相關(guān)的短語(yǔ)：leave aside把某事擱置一邊leave out 省去，遺漏，不考慮leave off 停止，不再穿

　　10.A 網(wǎng)絡(luò)把人們聯(lián)系在一起，選netted

　　11.B decrease減少，narrow變窄;neglect忽視，疏忽;low降低 句意：因此，我現(xiàn)在認(rèn)為數(shù)字鴻溝是在變窄而不是在拓寬

　　12.D contain包含，容納;prevent防止，阻止;keep保留，保持;combat戰(zhàn)斗，搏斗

　　13.C win贏得;detail詳述，細(xì)說(shuō);defeat擊敗，戰(zhàn)勝;fear畏懼。

　　14.A enormous巨大的;countless無(wú)數(shù)的;numerical數(shù)字的。potential作名詞為不可數(shù)，不能用countless修飾，big一般表示尺寸、數(shù)字、范圍上的大。

　　15.D take advantage of 利用

　　16.B with respect to 關(guān)于，至于 with也可換成in.表示關(guān)于的還有with regard to,concerning等。

　　17.C offence冒犯;investment投資;invasion入侵;insult侮辱

　　18.C construction建筑;facility設(shè)備;infrastructure基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施;institution公共機(jī)構(gòu)，制度。從后文中出現(xiàn)的infrastructure可以輕易得到答案。

　　19.A 表語(yǔ)從句，表示原因，“這也就是為什么...”

　　20.D concerning關(guān)于;concluding結(jié)束的;according根據(jù);including包括

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