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Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.

 

A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide-of the world into the info(information)rich and the info poor.And that(1)____dose exist today. My wife and l lectured about the looming danger twenty years ago.What was less(2)_____then,however,were the new,positive(3)____that 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 or two  billion people on the  planet will be(10)_____together.As a result ,l now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than(11)_____in the years ahead.And that is very good news because the Internet may will 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To take(15)____of this toll,some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices(16)____respect to foreign investment.Countries that still think foreign investment is a /an(17)____of their sovereignty might well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 structure,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.pessimistic

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.off               C.aside       D.behind

10. A.netted         B.assemble         C.put         D.organized.

11. A.wide          B.widen           C.increase      D.raise

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

13. A.win           B.against           C.defeat       D.deal

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

15. A.hold         B.use               C.benefit      D.advantage

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