Cloze Test (10 minutes, 10 points)

　　Directions: In this part, there is a passage with ten blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

　　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 until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic 2 , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 3 of the periodical . It was during the same time that the communications revolution speeded up, beginning with transport , the railway , and leading 4 through the telegraph , the telephone , radio , and motion pictures into the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in 5 .It is important to do so .

　　It is generally recognized , 6 , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century , followed by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s , radically changed the process , 7 its impact on the media was not immediately 8 . As time went by , computers became smaller and more powerful , and they became "personal”too , as well as 9 ，with display becoming sharper and storage capacity increasing . They were thought of , like people , 10 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 within which we now live .

　　1. A. between B. before C. since D. later

　　2. A. means B. method C. medium D. measure

　　3. A. process B. company C. light D. form

　　4. A. on B. out C. over D. of

　　5. A. concept B. dimension C. effect D. perspective

　　6. A. indeed B. hence C. however D. therefore

　　7. A. unless B. since C. lest D. although

　　8. A. apparent B. desirable C. negative D. plausible

　　9. A. institutional B. universal C. fundamental D. instrumental

　　10. A. by means of B. in terms of C. with regard to D. in line with