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[单项选择]People may turn to magic to reduce their fear and uncertainty if they feel they have no control over the outcome of a situation.
A. 如果感到局势已难以挽回，人们还可以把注意力转到魔法上，这样就可以减少恐惧和不安。
B. 如果感到局势失控，人们就会求助魔法，借此减少内心的恐惧和不安。
C. 如果人们觉得对结局无法控制，可能会求助于魔法来减少恐惧和不安。
D. 如果局势失控，人们可能会把注意力转到魔法上来减少恐惧和不安。
[填空题]Fear of tests may even result in good performance in a test.
[单项选择]A) To reduce half of the number of people who lack safe drinking water by 2015.
B) To maintain sustainable development of South Africa till 2015.
C) To release a report on water development and water problems in the world.
D) To arouse political desire to meet future water demands.
[单项选择]Passage Two
It may turn out that the "digital divide"-one of the most fashionable of recent slogans-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 (隔离) would, in turn, worsen already large economic inequalities. It’s this argument that is either untrue or widely exaggerated.
We always should have been suspicious (多疑的). After all, computers have spread quickly, precisely because they have become cheaper to buy and easier to use. Falling prices and lower skill requirements suggest that the "digital divide" would spontaneously shrink-and so it has.
As a slogan, the "digital divide" brilliantly united a concern for the poor with a faith in technology. It also suggested an agenda: Put computer
A. The advance of digital technology further separates the poor and the rich.
B. The advance of digital technology helps people gain more economic benefits.
C. The use of computers at school widens the gap among students of all levels.
D. The use of computers at school partly solves the inequalities in education.
[单项选择]
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 economist David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, challenges the notion that computers
A. that is responsible for economic inequalities.
B. deemed to be positive in poverty-relief.
C. that results from falling computer prices.
D. getting worse because of the Internet.
