专四
Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.
Mark the best choice for each blank on Answer Sheet Two.
Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. 31much had happened between.As was discussed before, the newspaper did not become the 32 pre-electrunic medium until the 19th century, 33 in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 34 of the periodical.It was during the same time 35 the communications revolution speeded up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading on through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 36 the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane.Not everyone sees that process in 37 .It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, 38 , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, followed by the39 of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 40 its impact on the media was not immediately 41 .As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as 42 , with display becoming sharper and storage 43 increasing.They were thought of, like people, 44 generations, with the distance between generations much.45 It was within the computer age that the 46 "information society" began to be widely used to describe the 47 within which we now live.The communications revolution has 48 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 49 view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been 50 against "harmful" outcomes.And generalizations have proved difficult.
请在第(31)处选择正确答案_______
A.Yet
B.And
C.Then
D.So
第一段首先指出人们曾将20世纪电视的发展比作15、16世纪印刷品的广泛传播,但其实还发生了许多其他变化。下文指出同期还相继发生了铁路运输、电报、广播、电影、汽车、飞机等方面的革命。
第二段指出20世纪60年代集成电路的发明和计算机的出现,加速了通信革命。
第三段指出计算机对人们生活、工作的重大影响。
【试题解析】
A。考查逻辑衔接。前文提到人们经常将20世纪电视的发展和l5、16世纪印刷品的传播进行对比。此处应该是说“但是在此之间也发生了很多事情”,前后有转折,故yet为正确答案。
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