公共英语考试

【单选题】In the past decade, new scientific developments in communications have changed the way many people gather information about politics. The most important of these new (21) is the Internet. Recent research suggests the use of the Internet for political information increases the (22) of participation.
While a(n) (23) relationship between Internet news and political participation has been found, a theoretical link as to why the Internet is (24) from other media forms is largely (25) This research is an attempt to (26) the "black-box" linking the Internet and political participation by building on two theoretical (27) The first, surge and decline theory, comes out of political science and the second, media systems dependency theory, (28) from communications.Both explanations focus on individual costs and benefits of political participation. The media can (29) the "costs" by providing sufficient information to make (30) decisions about voting. Previous research (31) that the Internet benefits the public through the cost side of the equation. One of the media’s greatest (32) is information and the public (33) on media to provide them with the information they neeD、 (34) the Internet is capable of providing information (35) , and from a multitude of sources, one would expect it to (36) . political action through lowering the cost of information.
Besides lowering participation costs, the media can (37) increase the benefits of participation. Intense media (38) of an event such as an election can (39) excitement that increases the perceived "benefit" of participating. The Internet may encourage a unique participation benefit (40) increased mobilization efforts.
A．technologies
B．materials
C．concepts
D．devices

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
technology技术；material资料；concept概念；device装置。根据文章第一句“通讯交流方面新的科学发展”可推断出，这句话的意思是“网络是一项新的重要的技术”，而不是装置、资料或者概念之类的。故选A。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>