2018考博英语完形填空模拟练习（15）

2018考博英语完形填空模拟练习（15）

　　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 __21__. As was

　　discussed before, it was not __22__ the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic __23__, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the __24__ of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution __25__ up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading __26__ through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures __27__ the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in __28__. It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, __29__, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, __30__ by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, __31__ its impact on the media was not immediately __32__. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as well as __33__, with display becoming sharper and storage __34__ increasing. They were thought of, like people, __35__ generations, with the distance between generations much __36__. It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the __37__ within which we now live. The communications revolution has __38__ both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been __39__ view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed __40__ “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.

　　1.[A] between [B] before [C] since [D] later

　　2.[A] after [B] by [C] during [D] until

　　3.[A] means [B] method [C] medium [D] measure

　　4.[A] process [B] company [C] light [D] form

　　5.[A] gathered [B] speeded [C] worked [D] picked

　　6.[A] on [B] out [C] over [D] off

　　7.[A] of [B] for [C] beyond [D] into

　　8.[A] concept [B] dimension [C] effect [D] perspective

　　9.[A] indeed [B] hence [C] however [D] therefore

　　10.[A] brought [B] followed [C] stimulated [D] characterized

　　11.[A] unless [B] since [C] lest [D] although

　　12.[A] apparent [B] desirable [C] negative [D] plausible

　　13.[A] institutional [B] universal [C] fundamental [D] instrumental

　　14.[A] ability [B] capability [C] capacity [D] faculty

　　15.[A] by means of [B] in terms of [C] with regard to [D] in line with

　　16.[A] deeper[B] fewer[C] nearer[D] smaller

　　17.[A] context[B] range[C] scope[D] territory

　　18.[A] regarded [B] impressed [C] influenced [D] effected

　　19.[A] competitive [B] controversial [C] distracting [D] irrational

　　20.[A] above [B] upon [C] against [D] with

　　参考答案：1-5. [A]. [D]. [C]. [B]. [B]6-10. [A]. [D]. [D]. [C]. [B]

　　11-15. [D]. [A]. [A]. [C]. [B]16.-20 [D]. [A]. [C]. [B]. [C]

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