40天攻克大学英语四级冲刺模拟三(1)

　　Passage Three
　　17. A) Tom Brennan.
　　B) An unknown person.
　　C) A Philadelphia magazine.
　　D) Deborah Logan.
　　18. A) It was written in Philadelphia.
　　B) It tell stories about Philadelphia.
　　C) People in the city are interested in old things.
　　D) The British and the Americans once fought in Philadelphia.
　　19. A) $1,000 B) $2,000
　　C) $3,000 D) $4,000
　　20. A) I’m rich.
　　B) I’m famous.
　　C ) I’m excited.
　　D) I’m lucky.
　　Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
　　Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
　　Passage One
　　Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
　　In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a “digital divide.” Yet the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth—that plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
　　This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such wand-waving—through the construction of specific local infrastructure projects such as rural telecenters—is just the sort of thing for which the UN’s new fund is intended.
　　This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes. The benefits of building rural computing centers, for example, are unclear. Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottom-up development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the internet, but of mobile phones.
　　21. What is the main idea of this passage?
　　A) Plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.
　　B) Poor countries should be given more basic devices other than advanced ones.
　　C) Rich countries should help poor ones becoming rich.
　　D) People in poor countries cannot afford devices such as computer.
　　22. What did the author mean by referring “digital divide.” (Line 3, Para. 1)?
　　A) Digital technology will make the gap between rich world and poor world wider.
　　B) Digital technology will divide people into rich and poor world.
　　C) People can be divided digitally.
　　D) To divide people in digital world is wrong.