Section 3: Cloze Test (25 points) The time for this section is 25 minutes.

　　In the popular mind, the Internet is the realization of the global village, where the flow of information and ideas is unimpeded by distance or national barriers. Much has been written ____ (1) the technology and the benefits that this system of unregulated information exchange will bring. But ____ (2) has been very little discussion about the languages — human, not computer languages ____ (3) are being used on the Internet.

　　Central ____ (4) the ideology of the emerging Internet community is the freedom of the individual users to express ____ (5) as they like. Nevertheless, ____ (6) recently, it has been very difficult to communicate through the Internet in any language ____ (7) could not be expressed in the standard English alphabet as defined ____ (8) the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASSCⅡ).

　　English is already the premier ____ (9) of science and technology worldwide. The peculiar restriction of ____ (10) able to communicate with only the limited ASCⅡ character set has worked to further encourage the ____ (11) English, especially by those ____ (12) native language is not normally expressed in some version of ____ (13) Roman alphabet.

　　In fact, it seems to be typical that ____ (14) accessing a network in a non-English speaking country _____ (15) is often presented with a choice of the local languages(s) or English. Many of the national networks that have now linked ____ (16) to the Internet are used ____ (17) scientific and technical communication, ____ (18) a rapidly growing portion of the Internet’s community are non-professional people.

　　Familiarity with English may be assumed ____ (19) a linguist or a physicist, but growing ____ (20) of users with no English language skills are joining the net in ____ (21) of the dominance of English in message forums and mail lists. Messages ____ (22) the Usenet newsgroups are overwhelmingly ____ (23) in English, and the bulk of the moderated mailing lists (including ____ (24) Linguist Discussion List, and international E-mail discussion list for linguists) are conducted in ____ (25).

　　KEYS：

　　D 91. C 92. C 93. C 94. B 95. B 96. C 97. D 98. A 99. B 100. A

　　Section 3 共25題，每題1分，滿分為25分

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