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

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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 notC2【C2】______ the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic【C3】______ , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the【C4】______ of the periodical. 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 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,【C15】______ generations, with the distance between genera-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 weed【C20】______  "harmful" outcomes: And generalizations have proved difficult.  [br] 【C11】

选项 A、unless
B、since
C、lest
D、although

答案 D

解析语篇连接题。原文从句中出现的否定词not可看作是提示线索的标志词，从上下文的逻辑关系来判断， D是正确答案，although可引导让步状语从句。选项A意为“除非”(if…not)，引导条件状语从句；选项B意为“自从，既然”；选项C意为“惟恐，以防万一”。

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

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