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【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 (91) .As was discussed before, it was not (92) the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pree-leetronie (93) , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (94) of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution (95) up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading (96) through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures (97) the 20th-eentury world of the motor ear and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in (98) . It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, (99) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, (100) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, (101) its impact on the media was not immediately (102) .As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as (103) , with display becoming sharper and storage (104) increasing. They were thought of, like people, (105) generations, with the distance between generations much (106)
It was within the computer age that the term" information society" began to be widely used to describe the (107) within which we now live. The communications revolution has (108) both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been (109) views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed (110) "harmful" outcomes.And generalizations have proved difficult.
A．gathered
B．speeded
C．worked
D．picked

网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[解析] 本题要求判断哪个动词与up搭配，构成短语动词，且符合文意。该动作的发出者是前面的主语communication revolution。根据语义，恰当选项是speeded up，表示通信革命加速发展。文中所在句子用了强调结构It was during the same time that，强调时间状语19世纪，表明在这一时期不但报纸成为主要媒介，而且通信革命也取得了重大的成果：运输业、铁路、电报、电话、无线电、电影都在发展。注意pick up也有加速的意思，但一般要有明确的语境，如出现speed，表示由不动到动或慢速行驶后增加速度。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>