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  3. Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 1

Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 1

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问题      Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. 【C1】______ much had happened between. As was discussed before, the newspaper did not become the 【C2】______ pre-electronic medium until the 19th century, 【C3】______ in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 【C4】______ of the periodical. It was during the same time 【C5】______ the communications revolution speeded up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading on through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 【C6】______ the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in 【C7】______  It is important to do so.
     It is generally recognized, 【C8】______ , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, followed by the 【C9】______ of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 【C10】______ its impact on the media was not immediately 【C11】______ . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as 【C12】______  with display becoming sharper and storage 【C13】______ increasing. They were thought of, like people, 【C14】______ generations, with the distance between generations much 【C15】______ .
     It was within the computer age that the 【C16】______ "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】______ view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been 【C20】______ against "harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.  
【C19】
选项 A、distracting
B、controversial
C、irrational
D、competitive
答案B
解析 篇章逻辑题之篇章语义。前文说信息革命影响了我们的工作生活，此处开始转折，说“有关它的经济、政治、社会和文化影响存在着______的观点”。distracting意为“转移注意力的”，controversial意为“矛盾的”，irrational意为“无理性的”，competitive意为“具有竞争性的”，只有controversial符合句意。
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