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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
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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2010-06-30
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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 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.
【25】
选项
A、gathered
B、speeded
C、worked
D、picked
答案
B
解析
此题属于词语搭配题。本题主要考查动词短语的含义,这是考查的一个重点。speed up表示“加速”,例如:The train gradually speeded up.(火车逐渐加速了。)不难看出本句的含义是“在15世纪到20世纪之间,从火车、电报、电话到汽车、飞机,交通、通讯业的变革速度是越来越快”,故选B 。gather up表示“收集”,例如:gather up one’s papers;work up表示“逐步发展”,例如:work up to a climax(渐至高潮);pick up表示“捡起
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