单项选择题

What Will Be is an impressive and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights on how information technology will transform our lives and our world in the new century.
The author, Michael Dertouzos, stands (1) from many of the forecasters and commentators who bombard us daily with (2) of this future. For twenty years he has led one of the world’s (3) research laboratories, whose members have brought the world (4) computers, the Ether Net, and start-up companies.
As a visionary, his (5) have been on the mark: In 1981, he described the (6) of an Information Marketplace as "a twenty-first-century village marketplace where people and computers buy, sell, and freely exchange information and information services." That’s a (7) description of the Internet as we know it today.
Naturally, we do not agree on all the (8) ways the new world will (9) or affect us. This is as it should be. There is plenty of room for (10) ideas and debate concerning the rich and promising setting ahead. What’s more important is that people become (11) , and form their own opinions, about the changes (12) .
When it (13) to that future world, what we do (14) far outweighs our differences New businesses will be created and new (15) will be made in the (16) areas of activity this book describes. More important, radical changes in hardware, software, and infrastructure will (17) in ways large and small our social lives, our families, our jobs, our health, our environment, our economy, and even the (18) we see for ourselves in the universe. Whoever (19) the coming Information Revolution—d that’s (20) all of us--needs to know What Will Be.

Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.8（）

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