Alice Walker is a feminist African American writer who actively participated in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

听力原文：W: Hi, John.

M: Hi, Jenny.

W: One of the issues today is the digital divide. What does it mean?

M: It refers to the divide between who is online and who isn't.

W: What's the nature of the breakdown? Who are they saying is online and who isn't?

M: They are looking at three principal portions of the American population with regard to the ethnic gap, the income gap and also different age groups.

W: What do they discover?

M: They find that today 30% of African Americans, 33% of Hispanic Americans, and 47% of White Americans, are online, but the largest portion of the American population are Asian Americans with 65% online.

W: Do they offer any explanations about why this might be?

M: Well, one reason of course is income. The low income population's use of the Internet is less, For example, for those who earn ＄75000 annually, over 70% have computers lined to the Internet.

W: Well, computers are still a fairly pricey item, although prices are coming down.

M: But they're predicting that within five years double the amount of people will be using them.

W: Going back, to this digital divide, do men and women use the Internet equally? Is there a gender divide?

M: No. Not only is there not a gender divide but the prediction is this year more women will be online than men.

W: Really?

M: But the difference here is the sites they visit. Men are interested in financial and technology sites. Women tend to prefer sites dealing with more personal matters. For instance, they want to find out about women's health. So while both men and women are online, there is a difference in what they go online for.

W: Yeah. Interesting. What did the study say about the future growth?

M: Well, they're forecasting that three quarters of the country will be online within five years.

W: That's fast, isn't it?

M: Sure. We'd better get involved.

W: Right.

What is the main idea of the dialogue?

A．Income is the main factor that determines who are online and who are not.

B．The digital divide is determined by factors such as income, race and age.

C．More and more people in the United States will go online in the near future.

D．Both men and women are interested in going online but they visit different sites.

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Robin Hood is a familiar figure to most of US．The outlaw who robbed the rich to give to the poor and dwelt with his band of merry followers in Sherwood Forest has long been celebrated in both prose and poetry．On stage and screen，he has fascinated countless generations．Yet behind that popular character lurks a mystery：Wh0，exactly，was Robin Hood?Did he exist at all?The evidence for a real，livin9，breathing Robin Hood is rather weak．Records show that in thirteenth．century，England there were a number of people who answered to his name or to something close to it．Yorkshire birth records note the arrival of a Robin Hood who apparently died in infancy．Also，of Yorkshire was Robyn Hode，a servant to King Edward Ⅱ．The man known as Robert Hude is remembered only through a now almost illegible name on a grave stone．In Sussex，there was also Gilbert Robynhod，a man whose name appears often in the local sheriffs records for nonpayment of debts． Despite careful searches of local records by historians，there is little connecting any of these men to the legendary Robin Hood．Still，there just may be a grain of truth in the legend of Robin and his merry band． In the thirteenth century，England certainly had its share of outlaws．Perhaps the most famous was Hereward the Wake，the last Angl0—Saxon chief to resist the Norman Conquest of 1066．HereWard and countless others rebelled against Norman rule and fled into the thick forests that carpeted the English countryside． Not surprisingly，their adventures formed the basis of numerous stories and songs in which the figure of Robin Hood consistently played a key role．Robin is presence in so many different songs and stories has led to the belief that he probably did exist，although perhaps not in，such heroic form．

It was discovered in Yorkshire birth records that．

A.Robin Hood was once a servant to King Edward II

B.there was a Robin Hood who died when he was a small babv

C.Robin Hood was a name commonly used in thirteenth—century England

D.the name of Robin Hood appeared often in the local sheriffs records

根据下列材料，请回答下列各题： questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. What makes a group intelligent? You might think a groups IQ would t esimply the aveiage intelligence of the groups members, or perhaps the intelligence of the teams smartest participant, But researchers who study groups have found that this isnt so. Rather, a groups intelligence emerges the interactions that go on Within the group. A teams intelligence can be measured, and like an individuals IQ scere, it can accurately predict the teams performance on a Wide variety of tasks. And just as an individuals intelligence is expandable, a groups intelligence can alsobe increased. Here are five suggestions on how to guide the developttment of smart teams: Chose team members carefully, The smartest groups are composed of people who are good at reading one anothers social cues, according to a study led by Carnegie Mellon University professor Anita Williams Woolley and published in the journal Science. Talk about the “how”. Many members of teams dont like to spend time talking about “process”, preferring to get right down to work--but Woolley notes that groups who take the time to discuss how they Will Work together aice ultimately more efficient and effective. share the floor: In the most intelligent teams, found Woolley, members take turns speaking Participants who dominate the discussion or who hang back and dont say much bring down, theWhat do we learn about a groups IQ?

A.It equals the total intelligence of the group members.

B.It determines the interactions among the group members.

C.It can help measure an individuals IQ score in the group.

D.It can help predict the groups performance on various tasks.

Come on, my fellow white folks, we have something to confess. Out with it, friends, the biggest secret known to whites since the invention of powdered rouge: welfare is a white program. The numbers go like this: 61% of the population receiving welfare, listed as "means-tested cash assistance" by the Census Bureau, is identified as whit e, while only 33% is identified as black. These numbers notwithstanding, the Republican version of "political correctness" has given us "welfare cheat" as a new term for African American since the early days of Ronald Reagan.

Our confession surely stands: white folks have been gobbling up the welfare budget while blaming someone else. But it's worse than that. If we look at Social Security, which is another form. of welfare, although it is often mistaken for an individual insurance program, then whites are the ones who are crowding the trough. We receive almost twice as much per capita, for an aggregate advantage to our race of $10 billion a year—much more than the $3.9 billion advantage African American gain from their disproportionate share of welfare. One sad reason: whites live an average of six years longer than African Americans, meaning that young black workers help subsidize a huge and growing "over-class" of white retirees. I do not see our confession bringing much relief. There's a reason for resentment, though it has more to do with class than with race. White people are poor too, and in numbers far exceeding any of our more generously pigmented social groups. And poverty as defined by the government is a vast underestimation of the economic terror that persists at incomes—such as $20,000 or even $40,000 and above—that we like to think of as middle class.

The problem is not that welfare is too generous to blacks but that social welfare in general is too stingy to all concerned. Naturally, whites in the swelling "near poor" category resent the notion of whole races supposedly frolicking at their expense. Whites, near poor and middle class, need help too—as do the many African Americans.

So we white folks have a choice. We can keep pretending that welfare is black program and a scheme for transferring our earnings to the pockets of shiftless, dark-skinned people. Or we can clear our throats, blush prettily and admit that we are hurting too—for cash assistance when we're down and out, for health insurance, for college aid and all the rest. Racial scapegoating has its charms, I will admit: the surge of righteous anger, even the fun—for those inclined—of wearing sheets and burning crosses. But there are better, nobler sources of white pride, it seems to me. Remember this: only we can truly, deeply blush.

White folks in U.S. are at a greater advantage in that

A．they obtain more benefits from welfare.

B．they show contempt for African Americans.

C．they blame the blacks for welfare theft.

D．they have a choice to their best interests.

Come on, my fellow white folks, we have something to confess. Out with it, friends, the biggest secret known to whites since the invention of powdered rouge: welfare is a white program. The numbers go like this: 61% of the population receiving welfare, listed as "means-tested cash assistance" by the Census Bureau, is identified as white, while only 33% is identified as black. These numbers notwithstanding, the Republican version of "political correctness" has given us "welfare cheat" as a new term for African American since the early days of Ronald Reagan.

Our confession surely stands: white folks have been gobbling up the welfare budget while blaming someone else. But it's worse than that. If we look at Social Security, which is another form. of welfare, although it is often mistaken for an individual insurance program, then whites are the ones who are crowding the trough. We receive almost twice as much per capita, for an aggregate advantage to our race of $10 billion a year—much more than the $3.9 billion advantage African American gain from their disproportionate share of welfare. One sad reason: whites live an average of six years longer than African Americans, meaning that young black workers help subsidize a huge and growing "over-class" of white retirees. I do not see our confession bringing much relief. There's a reason for resentment, though it has more to do with class than with race. White people are poor too, and in numbers far exceeding any of our more generously pigmented social groups. And poverty as defined by the government is a vast underestimation of the economic terror that persists at incomes—such as $20,000 or even $40,000 and above—that we like to think of as middle class.

The problem is not that welfare is too generous to blacks but that social welfare in general is too stingy to all concerned. Naturally, whites in the swelling "near poor" category resent the notion of whole races supposedly frolicking at their expense. Whites, near poor and middle class, need help too—as do the many African Americans.

So we white folks have a choice. We can keep pretending that welfare is black program and a scheme for transferring our earnings to the pockets of shiftless, dark-skinned people. Or we can clear our throats, blush prettily and admit that we are hurting too—for cash assistance when we're down and out, for health insurance, for college aid and all the rest. Racial scapegoating has its charms, I will admit: the surge of righteous anger, even the fun—for those inclined—of wearing sheets and burning crosses. But there are better, nobler sources of white pride, it seems to me. Remember this: only we can truly, deeply blush.

White folks in U.S. are at a greater advantage in that ______.

A．they obtain more benefits from welfare.

B．they show contempt for African Americans.

C．they blame the blacks for welfare theft.

D．they have a choice to their best interests.

In Africa, educational costs are very low for those who are ________ enough to get into universities.

A．ambitious

B．fortunate

C．aggressive

D．substantial