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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 16th centuries. Yet much had happened (91) . As was discussed before, it was not (92) the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pree-leetronie (93) , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (94) of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution (95) up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading (96) through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures (97) the 20th-eentury world of the motor ear and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in (98) . It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, (99) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, (100) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, (101) its impact on the media was not immediately (102) . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as (103) , with display becoming sharper and storage (104) increasing. They were thought of, like people, (105) generations, with the distance between generations much (106)
It was within the computer age that the term" information society" began to be widely used to describe the (107) within which we now live. The communications revolution has (108) both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been (109) views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed (110) "harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.

A.context

B.range

C.scope

D.territory

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参考答案:A

解析: 空格所在句子是一个强调句型It was within the computer age that...,其大意是:正是在这个计算机时代,“信息社会”开始被广泛用来描述我们现在所生活的……。information society描述的当然是society,因此考生关键要判断哪个选项和society属于同一语义范畴,显然不能说society是“范围(range/scope)”或“领土(territory)”,而只能说是一种“环境或背景(context)”。

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