唯心论考研英语历年阅读理解真题精析--2001年part2

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考研英语历年阅读理解真题精析
--2001
年
part2

Part Two

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 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
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 well be the most 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 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outdated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 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 and the French were
investing
in
Britain's
former
colony.
They
financed
them.
Immigrant
Americans
built
them. Guess who owns them now? The Americans 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
infrastructures needed to take full advantage of the Internet.

5
．
Digital divide is something _________.
［
A
］
getting worse because of the Internet
［
B
］
the rich countries
are responsible
for
［
C
］
the world must guard against
［
D
］
considered positive today
6
．
Governments attach importance to the Internet because it _________.
［
A
］
offers economic potentials
［
B
］
can bring foreign funds
［
C
］
can soon wipe out world poverty
［
D
］
connects people all over the world
7
．
The writer mentioned the case of the United States to justify the policy of
_________.
［
A
］
providing
financial
support
overseas
［
B
］
preventing
foreign
capital's
control
［
C
］
building industrial infrastructure
［
D
］
accepting foreign investment
8
．
It seems that now a country's economy depends much on _________.
［
A
］
how well developed it is electronically
［
B
］
whether it is prejudiced against immigrants
［
C
］
whether it adopts America's industrial pattern
［
D
］
how much control it has over foreign corporations
Unit 8
（
2001
）
Part2
重点词汇：


（分开；
分配；除）是
division
/
（分开；
部门；
除法）
的动词形式。
The
only
way
on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
世上能使幸福成倍增加的方法是将其分
作几份。
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must
have somebody to divide it w ith.
悲伤只需其自身就足够了，然而要获取一件乐事的充分
价值，
你就必须找人分 享。
Instead
of
this
absurd
division
into
sexes
they
ought
to
class
people
as
static
and
dynamic.
为取代性别这种荒唐的区别，他们应该把人分成静态与动态
两种。


（
v.
隐约出现；织布机）可看作
lo o+m
，
loo
即数字
100
，
m
即国际单位
米

，能织出
100
米长的布的

织布机

；
另外布在织成以前是透明的，
所以布后面的东西是可以

隐约出现< br>
的。

cialize
（使商业化）即
commercial +ize
，
commercial
（商业的）←
commerc
（< br>e
）
+ial
，
-ize
动词后缀

使
......
化

。
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as
specie is of commercial life.
礼貌是社会生活固定的中介，就像硬币之于商业生活。
< br>salize
（使普遍化）即
universal+ize
，
univ ersal
（宇宙的；普遍的）←
univers
（
e
）
+ al
，
-ize
动词后缀

使
......
化

。
Envy is the most universal passion.
忌妒是最
普遍的情感。
universe
-
merely
a
fleeting
idea
in
God's
mind
-
a
pretty
uncomfortable
thought, Particularly if you're just made a down payment on a house
宇宙< br>--
不过是
上帝头脑里一个稍纵即逝的想法
--
一种让人很不舒服的想 法，特别是在你刚预付过房子的定
金之后。

rish
?
（
使贫穷；
使枯竭）
←
im
加强前缀
+pover
词根+ish
动词后缀；
同根词：
poverty
（贫穷）←
pover+ty
名词后缀。

ice
（偏见< br>v.n.
损害）
即
pre+jud+ice
，
pre-
前缀

在前

，
jud
词根

判断
< br>（
=judge
）
，
-ice
后缀，

在弄清 事实之前就做出判断

→偏见，
而

偏见

是会招致
损害

的。
Prejudice
is
the child of ignorance.
偏见是无知的产物。

t
（
v.n.
尊敬）即
re+spect
，
re-
反复，
sp ect
词根

看

，反复看一个人是对其表示

尊敬
；
with
respect
to
关于。
All
the
great
religions
are
fundamentally
equal.
We
must
have innate respect for other religions as we have for our own.
一切伟大的宗教在根
本上都是等同的。
我们对于 其它宗教，
必须像对自己的宗教一样怀着天然的敬意。
To
respect
a
person
is
not
possible
without
knowing
him.
不了解一个人却要尊敬他，那是不可能的。
respect - to admire from a distance
尊敬
--
从远处赞赏。

ignty
（主权；主权国家）即
sover+
（
r
）< br>eign+ty
，
sover
（
=over
）在上，
reign
统治，
-ty
名词后缀，

在上面统治

；
sovereign
（统治的；统治者）←
sover+
（
r
）
eign
。

tructure
基础设施）即
infr a+structure
，
infra-
前缀

在下

，
structure
（
v.n.
构造）
。
以
in fra-
为前缀的词：
infrahuman
（类人猿的；
类人生物）
←
infra+human
；
infrared
（红外线的；红外线）←< br>infra+red
。

m
（电信）即
telecommunication
。

sible< br>（负责的；
可靠的；
责任重大的）
即
respons
（
e
）
+ible
，
response
回应
（见
2 001
年
Passage
1
）
，
-ible
能< br>......
的，

能得到回应的

→负责的。
An
idea
isn't
responsible
for the people who believe in it.
一种思想对信仰它的人并不负有责任。
To be a man is,
precisely, to be responsible.
确切地说，做男人就是负责任。

the interest of
为了
......
的利益；

well
很有可能；