2002年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

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 __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__ view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed __40__ “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.

21. [A] between

[B] before

[C] since

[D] later

22. [A] after

[B] by

[C] during

[D] until

23. [A] means

[B] method

[C] medium

[D] measure

24. [A] process

[B] company

[C] light

[D] form

25. [A] gathered

[B] speeded

[C] worked

[D] picked

26. [A] on

[B] out

[C] over

[D] off

27. [A] of

[B] for

[C] beyond

[D] into

28. [A] concept

[B] dimension

[C] effect

[D] perspective

29. [A] indeed

[B] hence

[C] however

[D] therefore

30. [A] brought

[B] followed

[C] stimulated

[D] characterized

31. [A] unless

[B] since

[C] lest

[D] although

32. [A] apparent

[B] desirable

[C] negative

[D] plausible

33. [A] institutional

[B] universal

[C] fundamental

[D] instrumental

34. [A] ability

[B] capability

[C] capacity

[D] faculty

35. [A] by means of

[B] in terms of

[C] with regard to

[D] in line with

36. [A] deeper

[B] fewer

[C] nearer

[D] smaller

37. [A] context

[B] range

[C] scope

[D] territory

38. [A] regarded

[B] impressed

[C] influenced

[D] effected

39. [A] competitive

[B] controversial

[C] distracting

[D] irrational

40. [A] above

[B] upon

[C] against

[D] with

2002年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

21. [A] 22. [D] 23. [C] 24. [B] 25. [B]

26. [A] 27. [D] 28. [D] 29. [C] 30. [B]

31. [D] 32. [A] 33. [A] 34. [C] 35. [B]

36. [D] 37. [A] 38. [C] 39. [B] 40. [C]