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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 16 th centuries. Yet much had happened【C1】______. As was discussed before, it was not【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 communication 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,【C15】______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 weed【C20】______"harmful" outcomes, and generalizations have proved difficult. [br] 【C9】
选项 A、indeed
B、hence
C、however
D、therefore
答案 C
解析 语篇连接题。选项C)however意为“然而”，插入句中，前后要用逗号隔开，本题所在的句子很长，又出现了四个空格，这就需要考生同时考虑分析句子的语法关系和关键词语的搭配。上文说到“观察过程本身是很重要的”；本句中又提到“二十世纪初计算机的发明……彻底地改变了这个过程”。那么，可以判断上下文应该是转折的关系，所以选C)。选项A)indeed意为“确实，果然”；选项B)hence意为“所以”，它后面的动词往往省略，该选项也可作副词，意为“今后，从此”；选项D)therefore意为“所以”。
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