33. It is nice to see millions who had nothing but a record of misery and hungry ______ to improve their life and living conditions.

A. having the chances   B. have the chance C. to have the chance D. had the chance

34. When you go by train, please see to it_______ you take an express, _______ that stops only at big stations.

A. that, one         B. /, the one          C. that, it            D. /, it

35. After the Arab States won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education, with girls as well as boys _____ to go to school.

A. encouraging     B. being encouraged    C. be encouraged    D. to be encouraged

第二节 完型填空(共20小题;每小题1分，满分20分)

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  36  does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming(隐现的)danger twenty years ago. What was less  37  then, however, were the new, positive  38  that work against the digital divide. 39 , there are reasons to be  40  .

There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more  41  , it is in the interest of business to universalize access—after all, the more people online, the more potential  42  there are. More and more  43 , afraid their countries will be left  44 , want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be  45  together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will  46  rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for  47  against world poverty that we've ever had.

Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to  48  poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has  49  potential.

To  50  advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices  51  regard to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an  52  of their sovereignty(主权)might well study the history of  53  in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so. And that is  54  America's Second Wave infrastructure— 55  roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on—were built with foreign investment.

36. A. divide    B. information   C. world   D. lecture

37. A. vague    B. visible    C. invisible   D. indistinct

38. A. forces    B. obstacles    C. events   D. surprises

39. A. Seriously   B. Entirely    C. Actually   D. Continuously

40. A. negative   B. optimistic    C. pleasant   D. disappointed

41. A. developed   B. centralized   C. realized   D. commercialized

42. A. users    B. producers    C. customers   D. citizens

43. A. enterprises   B. governments   C. officials   D. customers

44. A. away    B. for     C. aside    D. behind

45. A. netted    B. worked    C. put    D. organized

46. A. decrease   B. narrow    C. neglect   D. low

47. A. containing   B. preventing    C. keeping   D. struggling

48. A. win    B. solve     C. defeat   D. fear

49. A. enormous   B. countless    C. numerous   D. big

50. A. bring    B. keep     C. hold    D. take

51. A. at     B. with     C. of    D. for

52. A. offence   B. investment   C. invasion   D. insult

53. A. construction  B. facility    C. infrastructure  D. institution

54. A. why    B. where    C. when    D. how

55. A. concerning   B. concluding   C. according   D. including

第三部分：阅读理解(共15小题，每题2分，满分30分)

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It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the basis for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.

Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It not only includes "remembering" things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed (嗅出)something suspicious in the grain pile.

Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 "words"—string of alphabetic or numerical characters—ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information that the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.

The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person's memory is in terms of words and combinations of words. But while language greatly expands the number and the king of things a person can remember, it also requires a huge memory capacity. It may well be this capacity that distinguishes humans, setting them apart from other animals.

56. Which of the following is TRUE about memory?

A. It helps us notice things happening around us every day.

B. It is based on the decisions we made in the past.

C. It is rooted in our past habits and skills.

D. It connects our past experiences with the present.

57. According to the passage, memory is helpful in one's life in the following aspects EXCEPT

that _____.

A. it involves a change in one's behavior

B. it keeps information for later use

C. it warns people not to do things repeatedly

D. it enables one to remember events that happened in the past

58. What is the author's view about computers and human beings in terms of intelligence?

A. Computers have better memory than a child does.

B. Computers are as intelligent as a teenager is.

C. Computers can understand as many as 100,000 words.

D. Human beings are far superior to computers.

59. What is the major characteristic of man's memory capacity according to the author?

A. It can be expanded by language.　　   B. It can remember all the combined words.

C. It may keep all the information in the past.  D. It may change what has been stored in it.