SECTION III: READING

Part 1. Questions 56 – 65

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

PENICILIN BEFORE PENTIUMS FOR THE POOR

      One of the hottest topics on the international development agenda is how to harness the power of International Monetary Fund for the benefit of developing countries. What is sometimes called ‘the death of distance’, brought about by the (56) ________, allows professional services such as (57) ________ education and training to be provided easily and quickly to (58) ________ areas. Some of the gains can be seen in countries as diverse as India and Morocco, where innovations range from (59) ________ government announcements to local craftsmen selling their wares to a (60) ________ market. But already a huge and expanding (61) ________ divide is opening up between developed and developing nations. The major task facing world leaders at present is to (62) ________ everybody on the planet with clean water, basic education and the drugs needed to fight preventable diseases. Installing a (63) ________ in every classroom and linking us all to (64) ________ must be a lesser (65) ________, for the time being at least.

What is sometimes called ‘the death of distance’, brought about by the (56) ________,