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It may turn out that the "digital divide"--one of the most fashionable political slogans of recent years is largely fiction. As you will recall, the argument went well beyond the unsurprising notion that the rich would own more computers than the poor. The disturbing part of the theory was that society was dividing itself into groups of technology "haves" and "have-nots" and that this segregation would, in turn, worsen already large economic inequalities. It is this argument that is either untrue or wildly exaggerated.
We should always have been suspicious. After all, computers have spread quickly because they have become cheaper to buy and easier to use. Falling prices and skill requirements suggest that the digital divide would spontaneously shrink--and so it has. Now, a new study further discredits the digital divide. The study, by economists David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, challenges the notion
A. quite insightful.
B. very contradictory.
C. rather shallow.
D. fairly illuminating.
Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The (1) image of a writer, for instance, is (2) a slightly crazy-looking person, locked in an attic, writing (3) furiously for days (4) Naturally, he has his favorite pen and note-paper, or a beat-up typewriter, (5) he could not produce a readable word.
Nowadays, we know that such images (6) little resemblance to reality. But are they completely false In the case of at least one writer, it would (7) . Dame Muriel Spark, who (8) 80 in February, in many ways resembles this stereotypical "writer". She is certainly not crazy, and she doesn’t work in an attic. But she is rather (9) about the tools of her (10)
She (11) writing with a certain type of pen in a certain type of notebook, which she buys from a certain (12) in Edinburgh called James Thin. In fact, so (13) is she that,
A. except which
B. without which
C. beyond which
D. on which
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