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【B1】______. As was discussed before, it was not【B2】______the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic【B3】______, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the【B4】______of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution【B5】______up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading【B6】______through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures【B7】______the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in【B8】______. It is important to do so. It is generally recognized,【B9】______, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century,【B10】______by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process,【B11】______its impact on the media was not immediately【B12】______. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as【B13】______, with display becoming sharper and storage【B14】______increasing. They were thought of, like people,【B15】______generations, with the distance between generations much【B16】______. It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the【B17】______within which we now live. The communications revolution has【B18】______both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been【B19】______views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed【B20】______"harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.
【答案解析】解析:考查介词短语辨析和语篇理解。此处由and连接两个并列成分,前面是in the wake of the pamphlet and the book,后面是in the______of the periodical。可见选项处应填入与in the wake of(随着,紧跟)意义相似的词,故选B.company。in the process“在…过程中”,in the light of“根据,按照”,in the form of“以…的形式”,均与题意不符。
【答案解析】解析:考查介词辨析。根据上一题的分析,句子空格处需要一个介词,和前面的begin with,lead on through一起来表达通信革命发展的全过程。选项中只有into符合,而且它和前面的leading相呼应,表达“进入20世纪的汽车和飞机时代”。其他of,for,beyond均不符题意。
【答案解析】解析:考查形容词辨析。从结构上来看,空格所在句子中的代词they指代前面的computers,逗号后的and连接了两个并列句子,即上句的smaller and more powerful与下文的personal as well as…相对应。上句的smaller和powerful在含义上有转折,意为“虽然越来越小却越来越强”,因此空格所填入的词也应与personal相对照,只能选A.institutional,意为“电脑不再仅仅是团体而且也成了个人使用的工具”。universal“普遍的”;fundamental“根本的,本质上的”:instrumental“仪器的”:均与题意不符。
【答案解析】解析:考查介词短语辨析。本句意为“计算机与人一样,都可以______代(generations)来划分”,因此选B.in terms of“依据,按照”。by means of“用某种方式或手段”,with regard to“关于,至于”;in line with“符合,与…一致”;均与题意不符。
【答案解析】解析:考查形容词辨析。前文指出“通信革命影响了我们工作、休闲及思考和感知的方式”,空格所在句子指出“但是关于其在经济、政治、社会和文化上的含义的看法却______”。此外,从下文中的benefits和harmful的对比以及最后一句的And generalizations have proved difficult(现在形成统一的看法还有困难)也可以知道,人们对这个通信革命影响的看法是褒贬不一的。因此,该看法是有争议的(controversial),故选B.competitive“竞争的”,distracting“分散注意力的”,irrational“不合理的”,均与题意不符。
单选题
【B20】
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析:考查同定搭配。此处将两个对立性的事物"benefits"和"harmful"outcomes进行权衡比较,应用固定搭配weigh sth.against sth.或sth.is weighed against sth.,意为“权衡,斟酌”。故选C.against。