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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、apparent
B、desirable
C、negative
D、plausible
答案A
解析 此题属于语意搭配题。选项[A]apparent表示“表面的，明显的”，例如：with apparent indifference(表面上装作漠不关心)；又如：His grief is apparent to me．选项[B]desirable表示“值得要的，令人满意的”，例如：a desirable job；该选项可用于It is desirablefor sb．to do sth．或It is desirable that…的句型中，例如：It is desirable for you to bepresent(希望你能出席)。选项[C]negative表示“否定的，消极的”，例如：a negative response。选项[D]plausible表示“似是而非的”，例如：His explanation sounds fairly plausible to me．本题考的是形容词的辨析，读懂整个句子后可发现[A]是最佳答案。全句可译为：尽管一时之间，集成电路对媒体的影响不是明显。然而，20世纪初期引进了电脑，20世纪60年代发明了集成电路。人们普遍意识到这些彻底改变了这个变革的过程。
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