月到天心原文 年3月高口阅读下半场第二篇原文及解析(新东方版)

年3月高口阅读下半场第二篇原文及解析(新东方版)  

At a recent Inter culture conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge
a local ice-cream shop offered to make a custom flavor for the event. After some discussion
the anizers decided that it should be vanilla ice cream mixed with Nerds candies
"because the Inter is primarily white and nerdy
" explains Chris Csikszentmihályi
who directs the MIT Center for Future Civic Media.
While a joke
the ice-cream flavor was also a serious mentary on the digital divide that has grown beeen those who created the Inter – mostly affluent
white
male programmers – and the billions of people around the globe with whom they share little in mon.
There's a push among development specialists to provide more people with Inter connections and the assumption that these new Web citizens can then reap the same benefits as munities who've long been online.
第三段就是数字鸿沟的具体解释：通过网络，人们可以获得同样的benefit吗？可以配合第四段的词汇，给digital divide 下定义。
This may not be the case
however. While few people dispute the value of getting the world online
many Inter experts say that current Web content has little relevance and thus little appeal to those whose lifestyle is worlds away from programmers in the United States and Europe. If the majority of the world is to use the Web for more than just a few basic functions
Inter developers must address this gap.
"What you end up with is an Inter that assumes a particular kind of user
one that resembles the authors
" says Mr. Csikszentmihályi. "So
in a sense
almost everyone who uses the Inter has to sort of pass as a white
20-something
urban-dwelling kind of person."
Even in the US
this has proved to be a problem. A new study at Northwestern University in Evanston
Ill.
found that
among Americans
those from privileged backgrounds tend to have much higher skill levels and use the Web for more activities than those from less affluent families with equal Inter access.
"Just because people gain access doesn't mean that now they know how to use the Inter
" says Eszter Hargittai
author of the report. "Even if we put a lot of effort into connecting more people – which is of course important – [the concern is that] even once people obtain access
we will continue to observe considerable variation in their skills and online behavior."
For those outside the US
crossing the digital divide may seem even more daunting. In the Middle East
since 2000
Inter use has grown faster than anywhere else in the world. Although there are more Arabs online every day and their language is the world's fifth most widely spoken
less than 1 percent of Web content is in Arabic. Within the region
Jordan has been one of the most active countries bridging the digital divide. Here the information technology (IT) sector enjoys strong support from King Abdullah II and makes up 12 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. According to StartupArabia
a website dedicated to tracking Arab tech panies
only the United Arab Emirates has surpassed Jordan in the number of start-ups.
本段需要总结段义。大家可以将第二句和第三句合并处理。虽然阿拉伯人利用网络日益广泛，其语言也是全球第五大语种，但阿拉伯国家have been one of the most active countries bridging the digital divide.，只有少数网络内容使用本国语言。那里的信息产业占GDPde 较大比重12%，并得到政府支持。startup 型公司很多。
"Jordan doesn't have resources. We don't have oil; we don't have any major mineral resources; the only thing we have is education
" says Khamis Omar
dean of the IT department at the Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Amman
explaining the success of the IT industry in Jordan.
Despite these successes
Jordan is still on the far side of the perceived chasm. Only 54 percent of Jordanian homes have a personal puter and about 30 percent of people use the Inter. Of those who don't have puters
about half said they couldn't afford them while 40 percent said they didn't need them
according to a report by the Department of Statistics released to The Jordan Times last month.
In some regards
it may take decades for the Inter
like other technological revolutions
to take firm root outside its place of origin
says Steven Low
a puter science professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "It takes time not only for the technology to mature
but also for [a different] society to learn how to use it and then adapt how you live or how you work to make the most use of it
" he says. "That process has been going on in the developed world for the last several decades in terms of IT ... but it's only starting for the developing world."
本段需要总结Steven Low 的看法：问题的解决，需要假以时日。基本上还是总结段义。
In the meantime
Robert Fadel of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child says one of the most important things is to continue making technology available to more people so they can find ways to make it applicable to their lives. In the past o years
OLPC has helped distribute 1.5 million laptops to children in 35 countries.
"Children
with the support of their munity and their parents and teachers
will find it all out
they will discover it. We can help them out by giving them the freedom and the access to use such tools
" says Mr. Fadel. He adds that worrying that people might not get the full benefit of the Inter because they don't know how to use it
is like worrying that people may not benefit from a library if no one explains how to use it.
Still
Ms. Hargittai says that
for real Inter equality
it will likely take more than simply putting the tools in people's hands. Organizations working to bridge the divide must "devote resources to offering support
and potentially having a center where people can go for support
offering informal classes or instruction for the munity
" she says. She adds that any classes would need to effectively target the necessary audience
as many people may not know how much more they have to learn.