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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 21 As was discussed before, it was not 22 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic 23 , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 24 of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution 25 up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading 26 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 27 the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in 28 It is important to do so.
    It is generally recognized, 29 , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, 30 by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 31 its impact on the media was not immediately 32 . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as 33 , with display becoming sharper and storage 34 increasing. They were thought of, like people, 35 generations, with the distance between generations much 36 .
    It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the 37 within which we now live. The communications revolution has 38 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 39 view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed 40 "harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.
选项 A、between
B、before
C、since
D、later
答案A
解析 between此题属于语法题。选项[A]between表示“在……之间”。考生可能熟悉between作介词的用法，却不了解它其实还可作为副词，例如：We have four classes in the morning andtwo in the afternoon，and we have lunch between．我们上午有四堂课，下午有两堂课，其间我们进午餐。主要考查副词的用法。上文中提到了20世纪电视的发展及15、16世纪印刷术的传播，下文则讲到了这两个时间之间发生的一些事情。因此，根据上下文的关系，应选择[A]between。选项[B]before表示“在……之前”，可作介词，也可作连词，例如：Before the class，I went over the lesson．又如：Before the discussion began，I had acup of tea．选项[C]since表示“既然”，可作介词、连词，也可作副词，例如：I haven’twritten home since Christmas．又如：I have been at his bedside since he became ill．再如：Things have not changed very much since．选项[D]later表示“后来”，例如：a weeklater。这三个选项都不符题意。全句可译为：然而，20世纪与15、16世纪之间又出现了与信息传播有关的发明。
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