Section II Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark
[A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
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___ views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed ___40___ “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.
21. [A] between
[B] before
[C] since
[D] later
22. [A] after考研英语1真题
[B] by
[C] during
[D] until
23. [A] means
[B] method
[C] medium
[D] measure
24. [A] process
[B] company
[C] light
[D] form
25. [A] gathered
[B] speeded
[C] worked
[D] picked
26. [A] on
[B] out
[C] over
[D] off
27. [A] of
[B] for
[C] beyond
[D] into
28. [A] concept
[B] dimension
[C] effect
[D] perspective
29. [A] indeed
[B] hence
[C] however
[D] therefore
30. [A] brought
[B] followed
[C] stimulated
[D] characterized
31. [A] unless
[B] since
[C] lest
[D] although
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