专四专八考试

【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. (31) much had happened between.As was discussed before, the newspaper did not become the (32) pre-electronic 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 the (39) 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.
A．creation
B．invention
C．discovery
D．finding

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
词义辨析题之近义词。此处指电脑的“发明”，故使用invention。creation一般用于艺术创造；discovery指“发现”，如自然规律等；finding则指某项研究的发现。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>