THIS IS THE END OF SECTION I    DO NOT READ OR WORK ON THE NEXT SECTION    UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO CONTINUE全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题 (二)National Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates (2002)    考生注意事项    1 考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则，得到监考人员指令后方可开始答题。    2 全国硕士研究生入学考试英语分为试题 (一) 、试题 (二) 。    3 本试题为试题 (二)，共11页(5～15页)，含有英语知识运用、阅读理解、写作三个部分。英语知识运用、阅读理解A节的答案必须用2B铅笔按要求直接填涂在答题卡1上，如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。阅读理解B节和写作部分必须用蓝 (黑) 圆珠笔在答题卡2上答题，注意字迹清楚。    4 考试结束后，考生应将答题卡1、答题卡2一并装入原试卷袋中，将试题 (一)、试题 (二) 交给监考人员。<br class="bogusBR"></div><div class="blockBox part">Section II    Use of English<br class="bogusBR">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)<br class="bogusBR">    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 _21_. As was discussed before, it was not _22_ the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic _23_, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the _24_ of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution _25_ up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading _26_ through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures _27_ the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in _28_. It is important to do so.    It is generally recognized, _29_, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, _30_ by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, _31_ its impact on the media was not immediately _32_. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as well as _33_, with display becoming sharper and storage _34_ increasing. They were thought of, like people, _35_ generations, with the distance between generations much _36_.    It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the _37_ within which we now live. The communications revolution has _38_ both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been _39_ views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed _40_ “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.