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Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Scholars of the information society are divided over whether social inequality decreases orincreases in an information-based society.However, they generally agree with the idea that inequalityin the information society is（36）different from that of an industrial society.As informationprogresses in society, the cause and structural nature of social inequality changes as well.
It seems that the information society（37）the quantity of information available to the membersof a society by revolutionizing the ways of using and exchanging information.But such a view is a38 analysis based on the quantity of information supplied by various forms of the mass media.Adifferent（39） is possible when the actual amount of information（40）by the user is taken intoaccount.In fact, the more information（41） throughout the entire society, the wider the gapbecomes between "information haves" and "information have-mots", leading to digital divide.
According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major（42）class, sex, andgeneration.In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between theupper and middle classes and the lower class.With（43 ）to sex, digital divide exists between menand women.The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, （44）with personalcomputers and the Internet, and the older generation, （45） to an industrial society.
A.accustomed
B.acquired
C.assembly
D.attribute
E.champions
F.elements
G.expands
H.familiar
I.flows
J.fundamentally
K.interpretation
L.passive
M.regard
N.respectively
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For many Americans,2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell.Late November and December（36）early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two（37）, record-cold days will likely turn out to have oumumbered record-warm ones. But the U. S. was the exception: November was the warmest ever（38）, and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record. Enjoy the snow now, because（39）are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That's because, scientists are predicting,2014 will be an El Nifio Year. El Nino, Spanish for "the child",（40）when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the（41）energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. El Ninos are（42）with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa（43）dry weather. Marine life may be affected too: E1 Ninos can（44）the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich ( 营养丰富的） water that supports large fish（45）, and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral ( 珊瑚).
A. Additional
B. Associated
C. bore
D. Chances
E. Communicated
F. Decades
G. experiences
H. globally
I. logically
J. occurs
K. populations
L. realize
M. reduce
N. Saw
O. Specific
Section A
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Children do not think the way adults do.For most of the first year of life, if something is out of sight, it's out of mind.If you cover a baby's（36）toy with a piece of cloth, the baby thinks the toyhas disappeared and stops looking for it.A 4-year-old may （37） that a sister has more fruit juicewhen it is only the shapes of the glasses that differ, not the（38）of juice.Yet children are smart in their own way.Like good little scientists, children are always testing their child-sized（39） about how things work.When your child throws her spoon on the floor for the sixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, "That's enough! I will not pick up your spoon again!"
the child will（40） test your claim.Are you serious? Are you angry? What will happen if she throws the spoon again? She is not doing this to drive you（41）; rather, she is learning that her desires and yours can differ, and that sometimes those（42）are important and sometimes they are not.
How and why does children's thinking change? In the 1920s, Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget proposed that children's cognitive (认知的) abilities unfold （43）, like the blooming of a flower,almost independent of what else is（44）in their lives.Although many of his specific conclusions havebeen（45） or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.
A. advocate
B. amount
C. confirmed
D. crazy
E. definite
F. differences
G. favorite
H. happening
I. Immediately
J. Naturally
K. Obtaining
L. Primarily
M. Protest
N. Rejected
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发表于 2016-10-27 17:19:00