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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 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. 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.
【B19】
选项 A、competitive
B、controversial
C、distracting
D、irrational
答案B
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。
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