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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 (26)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(27)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 (28)analysis based on the quantity of information supplied by various forms of the mass media. A different (29)is possible when the actual amount of information (30)by the user is taken into account. In fact, the more information (31)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 (32): 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(33)to sex, digital divide exists between men and women. The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, (34)with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation,(35)to an industrial society.A.accustomedE.championsI.flowsM.regardB.acquiredF.elements? J.fundamentallyN.respectivelyC.assemblyG.expandsK.interpretationO.superficialD.attributeH.familiarL.passive答案：JGOKB IFMHAFor many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. November and December（26） early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two（27）, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception; November was the warmest ever （28）, and current data indicates that 2013 is likely