公共英语考试

【单选题】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 (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.
A、deeperB、fewerC、nearerD、smaller
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
此题属于语意搭配题。本题是以独立主格的形式出现，其逻辑主语是distance，可指空间的距离或时间的间隔，能与它相搭配的只有选项[D]smaller。注意：选项[C]nearer本身就表示距离或时间的接近，所以不能修饰distance。但是我们可以说The distance is long/short。因此考生在做题时，要排除汉语思维方式对英语的干扰。选项[A]deeper和选项[B]fewer都与本题题意不符。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>