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【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 air plane. 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.
【C13】

选项 A、institutional
B、universal
C、fundamental
D、instrumental

答案A

解析 本题的考点是词义辨析。空格在文章中的相关部分是As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as______,由从句中的“and”可知,smaller and more powerful和personal as well as______相对应。前者两个词的意思是转折的,即“虽然越来越小却越来越强”,相应的,空格处的词和personal在意思上应该也是
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