Section A

Directions : In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank isidentified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2with a single line through the center.You may not use any of the words in the bank morethan 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 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

O.superficial