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 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,  in【C15】______ of 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.  
【C19】

选项 A、competitive
B、controversial
C、distracting
D、irrational

答案B

解析 语义衔接题。本空所填词用来修饰views“观点”,B项 controversial 意为“有争议的,可能引起争论的”,与此处语义相符,故为答案。A项 competitive“竞争性的”,常与area/field等搭配;C项distracting“转移注意力的”,不能用来修饰views;D项irrational意为“不理智的”。本句意思为:通信革命对工作、休闲以及我们思考和感受时空的方式都产生了影响,但是也产生了关于经济、政治、社会以及文化的不同看法。
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