2015年12月英语四级阅读真题试题

　　Directions：

　　In this section， there is a passage with ten blanks， You are required to select one word for eachblank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage throughcarefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified a letter. Please mark thecorresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You maynot use any of the words in the bank more than once.

　　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 thatequality in the information society is 36 different from that of an industrial society. Asinformatization progresses in society， the cause and structural nature of social inequality changesas well.

　　It seems that the information society 37 the quantity of Information available to the members ofa society by revolutionizing the Ways of using and exchanging information. But such a view is a 38analysis 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 into account.In fact， the more information 41 throughout the entire society， the wider the gap becomesbetween "information haves" and "information have-nots," leading to digital divide.

　　According to recent studies， digital divide has been caused by three major 42 classy， sex， andgeneration. In terms of class， digital divide exists among different types of workers and betweenthe upper 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.

　　注意： 此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答.

　　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

　　O) superficial