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Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th
century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much
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{{U}}(27) {{/U}} the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant
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up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading {{U}}(31) {{/U}}
through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures {{U}}(32)
{{/U}} the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not
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so. It is generally recognized, {{U}}(34) {{/U}} , that
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smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal", too, as well as
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{{U}}(39) {{/U}} increasing. They were thought of, like people,
{{U}}(40) {{/U}} generations, with the distance .between generations
much {{U}}(41) {{/U}} . It was within the computer age
that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the
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has {{U}}(43) {{/U}} both work and leisure and how we think and feel
both about place and time, but there have been {{U}}(44) {{/U}} views
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generalizations have proved difficult.
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题的考点是词汇辨析。空格所在的介词短语in the ______ of和它前面的现在分词结构following in the wake of是并列成分,都是主语的伴随状语,现在分词结构following in the wake of表示的是“随着…出现以后”,因此空格处的介词短语也要体现出时间关系来,因此选B。
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题的考点是词汇辨析。空格所在的部分______by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s(______集成电路在20世纪60年代的发明)是插入语,修饰主语“the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century” (20世纪初计算机的问世),而空格所填入的词表达的是二者之间的关系,很明显二者之间是时间上的先后关系,因此只有选项B是恰当的答案。有的考生选择了 A,其错误在于没有搞清集成电路的发明和计算机的问世之间的时间上的先后关系,而选项A恰好是弄反了二者的先后关系,所以正确的答案是B。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题的考点是逻辑判断。空格连接两部分:The introduction of the computer in the early 20th century radically changed the process.(计算机在20世纪初的发明彻底改变了这一进程)和its impact on the media was not immediately ______(而它对媒体的影响却没有立即______),由此可知,二者之间是让步关系,因此选D。
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题的考点是词义辨析。空格在文章中的相关部分是As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as______,由从句中的“and”可知,smaller and more powerful和personal as well as______相对应。前者两个词的意思是转折的,即“虽然越来越小却越来越强”,相应的,空格处的词和personal在意思上应该也是转折的,选项B虽然可以做personal的反义词,但它强调的是一种普遍性,在文章中逻辑不通。选项A是和personal相对应的词,在文章中表达的意思是“电脑不仅被个人使用,而且被团体使用”,正确答案是A。
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题的考点是词义辨析。空格表示的是主语the communication revolution (信息革命)针对宾语both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time(我们工作和休闲的方式以及对时间和空间的思考和感知方式)所做的动作,选项中只有C项符合题意,说明信息革命对我们的生活和工作以及时空概念和感知方式的影响,所以正确的答案是C。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题的考点是词义辨析。首先我们可以排除A,它无法和view搭配。横线所在的部分由but来引导,说明它和前者之间的意思相反。前文中提到信息革命在多方面对人们产生了影响,横线处提出“但是关于其在经济、政治、社会和文化上的含义的看法却______”,而且从最后一句的and generalizations have proved difficult(现在很难有统一的看法)可知,人们对通信革命的看法是不统一的,因此,该看法是有争议的,所以正确的答案是B。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[考点解析] 本题的考点是词汇。weigh sth. against sth. 是一个固定搭配,意思是“权衡”,因此正确答案是C。