In the late 20th century, information has acquired two major utilitarian connotations. On the one hand, it is considered an economic resource, somewhat on par with other resources such as labor, material, and capital. This view stems from evidence that the possession, manipulation, and use of information can increase the cost-effectiveness of many physical and cognitive processes. The rise in information-processing activities in industrial manufacturing as well as in human problem solving has been remarkable. Analysis of one of the three traditional divisions of the economy, the service sector, shows a sharp increase in information-intensive activities since the beginning of the 20th century. By 1975 these activities accounted for half of the labor force of the United States, giving rise to the so-called information society.
As an individual and societal resource, information has some interesting characteris
A. the remarkable rise in information-processing activities
B. a sharp increase in information-intensive activities
C. information as an economic resource
D. the birth of information society
In the late 20th century, information has acquired two major utilitarian connotations. On the one hand, it is considered an economic resource, somewhat on par with other resources such as labor, material, and capital. This view stems from evidence that the possession, manipulation, and use of information can increase the cost-effectiveness of many physical and cognitive processes. The rise in information-processing activities in industrial manufacturing as well as in human problem solving has been remarkable. Analysis of one of the three traditional divisions of the economy, the service sector, shows a sharp increase in information-intensive activities since the beginning of the 20th century. By 1975 these activities accounted for half of the labor force of the United States, giving rise to the so-called information society.
As an individual and societal resource, information has some interesting characteris
A. Information can be condensed.
B. Information can be consumed through use.
C. Information can be shared by many people.
D. Information can be delivered at very high speed.
| In the late 20th century, information
has acquired two major utilitarian connotations. On the one hand, it is
considered an economic resource, somewhat on par with other resources such as
labour, material, and capital. This view stems from evidence that the
possession, manipulation, and use of information can increase the
cost-effectiveness of many physical and cognitive processes. The rise in
information-processing activities in industrial manufacturing as well as in
human problem solving has been remarkable. Analysis of one of the three
traditional divisions of the economy, the service sector, shows a sharp increase
in information-intensive activities since the beginning of the 20th century. By
1975 these activities accounted for half of the labour force of the United
States, giving rise to the so-called information society. A. the remarkable rise in information-processing activities B. a sharp increase in information-intensive activities C. information as an economic resource D. the birth of information society [填空题]In the late 20th century, the Interstate Highway System was officially renamed after Eisenhower in honor of ______.
[填空题]By the late 20th century, Americans no longer took marriage seriously.
[单项选择]Passage Three
A. Mid nineteenth century. B. Late nineteenth century. C. Mid eighteenth century. D. Late eighteenth century. [单项选择]
Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, citizens of the United States maintained a bias against big cities. Most lived on farms and in small towns and believed cities to be centres of (1) , crime, poverty and moral (2) Their distrust was caused, (3) , by a national ideology that (4) farming the greatest occupation and rural living (5) to urban living. This attitude (6) even as the number of urban dwellers increased and cities became an essential (7) of the national landscape. Gradually, economic reality overcame ideology. Thousands (8) the precarious (不稳定的) life on the farm for more secure and better paying jobs in the city. But when these people (9) from the countryside, they carried their fears and suspicions with them. These new urbanities, already convinced that cities were (10) with great problems, eagerly (11) the progressive reforms that promised to bring order out of th 我来回答: 提交
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