2001年Passage 2

　　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　　To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment.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.��

57．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

[答案] D

[解題思路]

　　美國的例子出現在文章的第四段。該段先指出一些國家因持有反殖民的偏見而反對外國投資，隨后用較大的篇幅說明美國人在英國殖民時期就充分利用了外國資金來建設本國的工業基礎設施，從中大大獲益并促進了國家的發展。暗含的意思是美國發展到現在如此強大，很大原因就是當年建基礎設施時充分利用了外國資金，那么現在那些缺乏資金的發展中國家為何不效仿呢？因而正確答案自然是D選項。A選項意思與原文相反，B和C選項都不是舉例的目的。

[題目譯文]

作者提到美國的例子是為了證明                        政策是合理的。
[A] 向海外提供資金援助
[B] 防止國外資本的控制
[C] 建設工業基礎設施
[D] 接受國外資本