Bill Gates, the head of the world's biggest computer software company, the Microsoft Corporation, has an ambition,“Put computers on every office desk and in every home．”Bill Gates has had this ambition since he was a university student nineteen years ago．This deep personal interest, together with his technical and business marketing skills helped him to create a giant computer company and to make him wealthy．
Although he is so wealthy, Bill Gates does not want to give up．He is still very interested in his vision(远见)and he travels the globe, from Beijing to London, making quick stops in cities to sell the new software products of his company．
The central vision of Bill Gates is the“information highway”．This is a network of computers that will link every home, office and shopping mall in the future．This computer network system will have an effect on business, shopping and education．Bill Gates says that the main use of this new technology will be in communication．It will be a way to find people with common interests and to share opinions with them．
But is this communication by computer along the“information highway”really a good thing?Won't we be sitting at home, only“socializing”with our computer, paying big companies money so that we can receive information that some large communication corporation some where has decided and that is“acceptable”for us to read?No, says Bill Gates, who thinks that the phrase“information highway”is a terrible phrase．It makes people think that we are all going down the same road, he says．In fact, the computer network will let us choose our own intellectual direction．It will give us freedom．It will also bring good to society, because it will allow for the spread of education．When more and more people receive education, the gap between the rich and the poor will narrow．
In the meantime, however, the gap between the rich and the poor is still there．To be added to this now is the gap between those with computers and those without．
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The underlined word“ambition”in this text means a ________．
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course
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job
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duty
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goal
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The reasons for Bill Gates' success are as follows except ________．
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his vision and his travel over the world
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his technical and business marketing skills
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the money we pay for the information received from the“information highway”
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his deep personal interest
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The way the“information highway”offers us will mainly be used ________．
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to find people who have the same opinion and who have interests in common
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to help link every home office and shopping mall
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to affect business shopping and education
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to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor
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The best title of this passage should be ________．
China has input several billion yuan of money to stop the dirty water waste on the upper and middle area of the Pearl River from polluting the lower reaches of the river, especially the Macao Spe-cial Administrative Region．
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the upper and middle reaches of the Pearl River has been rapidly urbanized(城市化)and industrialized in recent years, leading to a rise in the amount of urban rubbish to the damage of the land, rivers and atmosphere．
Refuse dumps and special plants in most cities treat rubbish to make it harmless, with 5,800 tons of wastes being burnt, buried or made into fertilizers on a daily basis．
He Suping, a woman engineer with the water re-sources department in Guangxi said, it is imperative for the autonomous region to treat sewage wastes to protect the area's Karst terrain(喀斯特地形)and rain water which brings contact between groundwater and surface water, making groundwater more easily polluted．
The Xijiang River, a branch of the Pearl River which runs from Guangxi to neighboring Guangdong Province, provides fresh water for a number of river-side cities such as Macao, Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Zhaoqing, so Guangxi must begin to treat rubbish quickly to protect the water sources, said Liu Chen, a senior engineer with the Ministry of Water Resources．
The government 2001－2006 plan to spend bil-lions of yuan to turn wastes harmless has been mainly provided by national debt payments and overseas in-vestment．So far wastes treatment projects have re-ceived a total of 400 million yuan(48 million US dol-lars)from national debts and 60 million yuan(7.22 million US dollars)from overseas loans(贷款)．
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The main idea of the passage is ________
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A large number of waterways have been polluted in China up to now．
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Guangxi and Guangdong have taken the lead in making water clean．
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China's rivers are badly in need of improve-ment．
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China is making efforts to reduce pollution of the rivers．
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The main idea of the last paragraph is ________
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The government has no ability to afford the expenses of treating wastes．
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The government has a long-term plan to treat wastes．
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National debt payments and overseas investment are taking an important part in developing China's economy．
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A great deal of money is needed in dealing with wastes．
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The basic reason why the amount of urban rubbish rises in Guangxi lies in ________．
