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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 16 th 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 communication 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 weed【C20】______"harmful" outcomes, and generalizations have proved difficult.
【C13】
选项 A、institutional
B、universal
C、fundamental
D、instrumental
答案B
解析 语义搭配题。选项B)universal意为“普遍的。通用的”。本题中需要填入一个与上文中的personal相对应的形容词，所以首先要了解personal的含义: 个人的，个性化的。因此B符合题意。选项A)institutional意为“制度的，规格化的”；选项C)fundamental意为“基本的，重要的”；选项D)instrumental的意思是“仪器的，可以作为手段的”。
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