问题 单项选择题

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 (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.institutional

B.universal

C.fundamental

D.instrumental

答案

参考答案:A

解析: 从结构上来看,空格所在句子中的代词they指代前面的computers,逗号后的and连接了两个并列句子,即上句的smaller and more powerful与下文的personal as well as (103) 相对应。上句的smaller和powerful在含义上有转折,意为虽然越来越小却越来越强,因此空格所填入的词也应与personal相对照。如果从字面上理解personal,它的含义是私人的、个人的,universal可以是它的反义词,但universal多做定语,强调普遍性,如universal interest(普遍感兴趣),而且它在文中表达的含义“不仅被普遍使用,也被个人使用”也不符合逻辑。只有institutional与personal相对应,指出电脑不再仅仅是团体而且也成了个人使用的工具,符合文意。

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