选词填空：Scholars of the information society are divided over whether social

Scholars of the information society are divided over whether social inequality decreases or increases in an information-based society. However, they generally agree with the idea that inequality in the information society is_____(36)different from that of an industrial society. As informatization progress 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 members of a society by revolutionizing the ways of using and exchanging information. But such a view as a_____(38)analysis based on the quantity of information supplied by various forms of the mass media. A different_____(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 becomes between "information haves" and "information have-nots," leading to digital divide.

According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major_____(42): class, sex, and generation. In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class. With_____(43)to sex, digital divide exists between men and women. The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, _____(44)with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation,_____(45)to an industrial society.

A.accustomed习惯的 通常的

B.acquired 取得

C.assembly 集合

D.attribute 把…归于

E.champions 冠军

F.elements 原理，元素

G.expands 扩大

H.familiar 熟悉的

I.flows 流动

J.fundamentally 从根本上地

K.interpretation 解释

L.passive 被动的

M.regard 把..看作，与…有关

N.respectively 分别地

O.superficial 表面的，肤浅的