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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 【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.
【33】
选项 A、institutional
B、universal
C、fundamental
D、instrumental
答案B
解析 此题属于语意搭配题。选项B universal表示“普遍的，通用的”，例如：a universal truth。本题中需要填入一个与上文中的personal相对应的形容词，所以首先要了解personal的含义：个人的，个性化的。因此B 符合题意。选项A institutional表示“制度的，规格化的”；选项C fundamental表示“基本的，重要的”，例如：fundamental human rights;选项D instrumental表示“仪器的，器械的”。
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