63．The experiments made by the
scientist was based on _______．
A．special
methods B．scientific theories
C．personal interests D．systematic observations
Key: 60．A 61．C 62．B 63．D
(B)
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so
called 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 then, however were the new, positive
forces that work against the digital divide. These 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 internet of
business to universalize access-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 believe the digital
divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead, and that is very good
news because the Internet may be more powerful tool for combating world poverty
that we've ever had.
Of course, the use of the Internet isn't
the only way to defeat poverty. And
the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has great 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some-impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices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 their sovereignty
(主权) might 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 didn't have the capital to do so. And that is why America's Second Wave infrastructure-including roads, harbors,
highways, ports and so on--were built with foreign investment. The English, the
Germans, the Dutch French were investing in Britain's former colony. They finished
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 anywhere 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 you're
going to be. That doesn't mean lying down and becoming fooled, or letting
foreign corporations run uncontrolled. But it does mean recognizing how
important they can be in building the energy and telecom structures needed to
take full advantage of the Internet.