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  3. 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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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(1)______. As was discussed before, it was not(2)_____ the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic(3)______, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the(4)_____ of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution(5)_____ up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading(6)_____ through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures(7)_____ the 20th-century world of the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in(8)_____. It is important to do so.
    It is generally recognized,(9)______, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century,(10)_____ by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process,(11)_____ its impact on the media was not immediately(12)_____. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as(13)______, with display becoming sharper and storage(14)_____ increasing. They were thought of, like people, (15)_____ generations, with the distance between generations much(16)_____.
    It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to
describe the(17)_____ within which we now live. The communications revolution has(18)_____ both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been(19)_____ views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed(20)_____ "harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.
(4)
选项 A、process
B、company
C、light
D、form
答案B
解析 in the wake of the pamphlet and thebook“继小册子和书籍之后”和in the ofthe periodical是并列结构．in the wake of表示“尾随”，与wake对应的只有B项company。
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