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  3. Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th cen

Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th cen

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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【C1】______. As was discussed before, it was not【C2】______the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant preelectronic【C3】______. following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the【C4】______of the periodical (期刊). It was during the same time that the communications revolution【C5】______up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading【C6】______through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures【C7】______the 20th-century world of the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in【C8】______. It is important to do so.
    It is generally recognized,【C9】______. that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century,【C10】______by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process,【C11】______its impact on the media was not immediately【C12】______. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as【C13】______. with display becoming sharper and storage【C14】______increasing. They were thought of, like people, in【C15】______of generations, with the distance between generations much【C16】______.
    It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the【C17】______within which we now live. The communications revolution has【C18】______both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been【C19】______views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed【C20】______"harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult. [br] 【C14】
选项 A、ability
B、capability
C、capacity
D、faculty
答案 C
解析 语义衔接题。本题考查近义词辨析。空前的storage意为“存储”，因此后面的词要表示可存储的能力，即“容量，容积”的意思。所给四个选项中只有[C]capacity与storage相搭配，意为“存储能力”。[A]ability“能力”常指“天生的能力”或“后天获得的技能”；[B]capability较多用于人，指胜任某项具体工作的能力、本领；[D]faculty多指(身体、精神的)机能，还可指“先天的智能或能力”。
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