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1、.word格式,年MBA英语阅读练习题附答案 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 divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible
2、 then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic. There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize acce
3、ss-after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be netted together. As a result, I now beli
4、eve the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for combating world poverty that weve ever had. Of course, the use of the Internet isnt the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is not
5、the only tool we have. But it has enormous potential. To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty might
6、well study the history of infrastructure (the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didnt have the capital to do so. And that is why Americas Second Wave infrastructure-including roads, harbors, highways, ports
7、 and so on-were built with foreign investment. The English, the Germans, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britains former colony. They financed them. Immigrant Americans built them. Guess who owns them now? The Americans. I believe the same thing would be true in places like Brazil or anyw
8、here else for that matter. The more foreign capital you have helping you build your Third Wave infrastructure, which today is an electronic infrastructure, the better off youre going to be. That doesnt mean lying down and becoming fooled, or letting foreign corporations run uncontrolled. But it does
9、 mean recognizing how important they can be in building the energy and telecom infrastructures needed to take full advantage of the Internet. 1Digital divide is something _. Agetting worse because of the Internet Bthe rich countries are responsible for Cthe world must guard against Dconsidered posit
10、ive today 2Governments attach importance to the Internet because it _. Aoffers economic potentials Bcan bring foreign funds Ccan soon wipe out world poverty Dconnects people all over the world 3The writer mentioned the case of the United States to justify the policy of _. Aproviding financial suppor
11、t overseas Bpreventing foreign capitals control Cbuilding industrial infrastructure Daccepting foreign investment 4It seems that now a countrys economy depends much on _. Ahow well developed it is electronically Bwhether it is prejudiced against immigrants Cwhether it adopts Americas industrial patt
12、ern Dhow much control it has over foreign corporations 参考答案：C A D A If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that yo
13、u understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries,
14、 you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, bea
15、utiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that? " the new arrival asked St. Peter. “On, thats God," came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks hes a doctor." If you are part of the group which you ar
