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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、context
B、range
C、scope
D、territory
答案A
解析 此题属于语意搭配题。选项[A]context可表示“上下文”，也可表示“背景，环境”(situation)，例如：I think we need to look at these events in context．原句又是一个强调句型，所填空格的后面是一个定语从句，意为“我们所生活的…”，而与空格相对应的是information society(信息社会)，可以判定空格的意思应与society相近，故[A]是正确答案。选项[B]range表示“(气温、价格等浮动的)幅度”，例如：the range of the price。选项[C]scope表示“(能力、理解等的)范围”，例如：The problem is within the scope of the child．选项[D]territory(领土)。本题说明考生不仅要注意单词的基本意思，还应加强对单词引申义的理解。全句可译为：正是在电脑时代，“信息社会”这一说法才开始广泛地用于描述我们所生活的这个环境。
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