2007年度-全国MBA联考完形填空训练(二)

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1.
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

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 ( 1 ) . As was discussed before, it was not ( 2 ) the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic ( 3 ) , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the ( 4 ) of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution ( 5 ) up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading ( 6 ) through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures ( 7 ) the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in ( 8 ) . It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, ( 9 ) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, ( 10 ) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, ( 31 ) its iMPAct on the media was not immediately ( 12 ) . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal" too, as well as ( 13 ) , with display becoming sharper and storage ( 14 ) increasing. They were thought of, like people, ( 15 ) generations, with the distance between generations much ( 16 ).
It was within the computer age that the term “information society" began to be widely used to describe the ( 17 ) within which we now live. The communicatio ns revolution has ( 18 ) both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been ( 19 )view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits "have been weighed ( 20 ) “harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.

1. [A] between [B] before [C] since [D] later
2. [A] after [B] by [C] during [D] until
3. [A] means [B] method [C] medium [D] measure
4. [A] process [B] coMPAny [C] light [D] form
5. [A] gathered [B] speeded [C] worked [D] picked
6. [A] on [B] out [C] over [D] off
7. [A] of [B] for [C] beyond [D] into
8. [A] concept [B] dimension [C] effect [D] perspective
9. [A] indeed [B] hence [C] however [D] therefore
10. [A] brought [B] followed [C] stimulated [D] characterized 11. [A] unless [B] since [C] lest [D] although
12. [A] apparent [B] desirable [C] negative [D] plausible
13. [A] institutional [B] universal

[C] fundamental [D] instrumental
14. [A] ability [B] capability [C] capacity [D] faculty
15. [A] by means of [B] in terms of

[C] with regard to [D] in line with
16. [A] deeper [B] fewer [C] nearer [D] smaller
17. [A] context [B] range [C] scope [D] territory
18. [A] regarded [B] impressed [C] influenced [D] effected
19. [A] competitive [B] controversial

[C] distracting [D] irrational
20. [A] above [B] upon [C] against [D] with
 

 

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