In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world em

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In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new puting and munications 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 bee 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 ine, development and literacy(识字). Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own puters 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(棒) and cause a puter to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a puter is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such Wand-waving - through the construction of specific local infrastructure(基础设施) projects such as rural tele-centers--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(下面) causes. The benefits of building rural puting 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.
1. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Plugging poor countries into the Internet will help them to bee rich rapidly.
B. Poor countries should be given more basic devices other than advanced ones.
C. Rich countries should help poor ones bee rich.
D. People in poor countries cannot afford devices such as puter.
2. 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.
3. We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that    .
A. people in poor countries cannot use puter because of illiteracy.
B. poor people cannot use puters.
C. there would be no magic to cause a puter to appear in every household on earth.
D. people in poor countries need more basic living conditions than puters.
4. Considering the following sentences, which one would the author most agree?
A. Digital technology is useless.
B. Digital divide will help poor countries bee rich.
C. Poor people need more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security.
D. Mobile phones should be promoted firstly. 
5. The following passage will probably be:
A. How to promote using of mobile phones.
B. How to use technology to promote bottom-up development.
C. The benefits of building rural puting centers.
D. How to meet the need of food, health and security in poor countries.B 

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