填空题 A. actually B. cultural C. digitized D. grammar E. ifF. intervention G. obviously H. path I. though J. transitionK. transmission L. unmediated M. virtual N. visual O. way There is a curious cliche that says pictures don’t lie. It is part of that greater cliché that says seeing is believing. Somehow a thing seen directly—or through a(n)【C1】________representation like a painting, a photograph, or a film—brings us closer to some actual reality. Words are too 【C2】________not things themselves; words are made-up sounds, developed throughout the life of a culture, represented by made-up letters, put together in a contrived 【C3】________ that everyone in a culture uses to communicate through a decision that the particular words will refer to particular things. Language is clearly【C4】________ and not natural: It is human made and accepted with some variations throughout a particular culture. Every English speaker understands what the word " food" refers to, even【C5】________the particular kind of food that comes to mind may vary to each individual. But seeing a thing seems to bring us something very close to the thing itself—to "reality". Things that are seen appear to be and even feel as if they are【C6】________; that is, they seem to be conveyed directly to us, not conveyed indirectly. Nothing stands in their【C7】________. They are true. But, in fact, an image, whether photographed, painted, or【C8】________, is not the thing itself. It is a representation of a mediated【C9】________, composed through the camera lens, or a computer, and transferred onto film or through binary code onto the computer screen, appearing to be the thing itself. But even when we acknowledge the【C10】________of optics, computer science, and the human hand and eye of the photographer in recording and developing the photographic image, we still haven’t considered all the mediation that goes on. An image of the thing is not the thing.《问题》：【C3】