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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【C1】______. As was discussed before, it was not【C2】______the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-elec-tronic【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,【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.
【C3】
选项 A、means
B、method
C、medium
D、measure
答案C
解析 本题相关部分是the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic——，following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book，其中in the wake of意为紧跟……之后，接踵而来，如：Outbreaks of disease occurred in the wake of the drought．(那场旱灾过后，疾病肆虐)。因此整个句子的含义是报纸继宣传册和书之后成为电子时代到来前主要的。从句意来看，空格处填入的名词应概括newspaper，pamphlet和book的共同特点，根据常识，报纸、宣传册和图书都只能是传播信息的媒介(medium)，而不是方法或措施。medium可特指大众传播手段，包括报纸、杂志、广播或电视等，如：Commercial television is a medium for advertising．(商业电视是一种广告媒介)。
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