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 had happened【C1】______As was discussed before, it was not【C2】______the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic【C3】______, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the【C4】______of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution【C5】______up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading【C6】______through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures【C7】______the 20th-century world of the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in【C8】______. It is important to do so. It is generally recognized,【C9】______, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century,【C10】______by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process,【C11】______its impact on the media was not immediately【C12】______. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as【C13】______, with display becoming sharper and storage【C14】______increasing. They were thought of, like people,【C15】______generations, with the distance between generations much【C16】______. It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the【C17】______within which we now live. The communications revolution has【C18】______both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been【C19】______views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed【C20】______"harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.
【答案解析】解析：in the wake of the pamphlet and the book“继小册子和书籍之后”和in the——of the periodical是并列结构，in the wake of表示“尾随”，四个选项中只有B项company代入文中合乎语义逻辑，in the company of表示“在……陪同下，和……一起，偕同……”。
单选题
【C5】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：空格后提到的交通、铁路，到电报、电话、收音机、电影，再到汽车、飞机，表明此处应该是描述通信革命的发展，且由beginning with，and leading on through．．．into．．．等一连串紧凑的字眼，可猜测此处所说的发展应该十分迅速，speed up“加快速度”符合语境，故本题选B。