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Information is the primary commodity in more and more industries today.
By 2005, 83% of American management personnel will be knowledge workers. Europe and Japan are not far behind.
By 2005, half of all knowledge workers (22% of the labour force) will choose "flextime, flexplace" arrangements, which allow them to work at home, communicating with the office via computer networks.
In the United States, the so-called "digital divide" seems to be disappearing. In early 2000, a poll found, that, where half of white households owned computers, so did fully 43 of African American households, and their numbers were growing rapidly. Hispanic households continued to lag behind, but their rate of computer ownership was expanding as well.
Company-owned and industry-wide television networks are bringing programming to thousands of locations. Business TV is becoming big business.
Computer competence will approach 100% in US urban area
A. American management personnel.
B. European management personnel.
C. American people's choice of career.
D. traditional practice at work.

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Information is the primary commodity in more and more industries today.
By 2005, 83% of American management personnel will be knowledge workers. Europe and Japan are not far behind.
By 2005, half of all knowledge workers (22% of the labour force) will choose "flextime, flexplace" arrangements, which allow them to work at home, communicating with the office via computer networks.
In the United States, the so-called "digital divide" seems to be disappearing. In early 2000, a poll found, that, where half of white households owned computers, so did fully 43 of African American households, and their numbers were growing rapidly. Hispanic households continued to lag behind, but their rate of computer ownership was expanding as well.
Company-owned and industry-wide television networks are bringing programming to thousands of locations. Business TV is becoming big business.
Computer competence will approach 100% in US urban area
A. the gap in terms of computer ownership.
B. the tendency of computer ownership.
C. the dividing line based on digits.
D. the ethnic distinction among American households.

[单项选择]The primary motivation for investing in commodity-linked bonds is that they most likely provide:（）
A. an income stream.
B. capital gains returns.
C. protection against interest rate risk.

[单项选择]Technology has meant more information is available at a faster speed ______.

[单项选择]The （　） family in Chinese cities now spends more money on housing than before.
A. normal
B. average
C. usual
D. general

[单项选择]More news information programs are broadcast on Italian TV than anywhere else because the Italians ______. ( )
A. are interested in what is happening in the world
B. like to undergo social and politcal changes
C. prefer to learn news information in TV rather than in newspapers
D. expect TV to tell them the latest news about what is going on in their country

[单项选择]In what section we can know more information about films
A. The Arts.
B. The Dining In, Dining Out.
C. The House & Home.
D. Weekend.

[单项选择]You ______ television. Why not do something more meaningful
A. always watch
B. are always watching
C. have always watched
D. have always been watching

[单项选择]In one of my books I gave more information than ______ to solve a particular problem.
A. has needed
B. was needed
C. being needed
D. had needed

[单项选择]If you need more information, please contact us______telephone or e-mail.
A. in
B. by
C. on
D. for

[单项选择]______ I love you, I can't let you have any more money.
A. Whether
B. Also
C. However
D. Much as

[单项选择]"I'm certainly more and more to the conclusion that Iraq has, ______ they maintained (断言) , destroyed almost all of they had in the summer of 1991 ." Blix said.


A. which ... what
B. as ... which
C. as ... that
D. as ... what

[单项选择]The information on the Internet gets around much more rapidly than（）in the newspaper.
A. it
B. those
C. that
D. one