Passage 1　　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 between. As was discussed before, it was not  1 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic medium, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the company of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution speeded  2 , beginning  3 transport, the railway, and leading on through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures into the 20th-century world  4 the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that  5 in perspective.　　It is generally recognized, however, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, followed  6 the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process,  7 its impact  8 the media was not immediately apparent.  9 time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as  10 as institutional, with display becoming sharper and storage capacity  11 . They were thought of, like people, in terms of generations, with the distance between generations much smaller.　　It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the context 12 we now live. The communications revolution has  13 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time,  14 there have been controversial views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed  15 “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.

发布日期：2022-07-11

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