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 (61) As was discussed before, it was not (62) the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic (63) , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (64) of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution (65) up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading (66) through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures (67) the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in (68) . It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, (69) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, (70) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, (71) its impact on the media was not immediately (72) . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as (73) , with display becoming sharper and storage (74) increasing. They were thought of, like people, (75) 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.
A. gathered
B. speeded
C. worked
D. picked
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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 (61) As was discussed before, it was not (62) the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic (63) , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (64) of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution (65) up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading (66) through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures (67) the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in (68) . It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, (69) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, (70) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, (71) its impact on the media was not immediately (72) . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as (73) , with display becoming sharper and storage (74) increasing. They were thought of, like people, (75) 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.
A. means
B. method
C. medium
D. measure
语言时空论是语言学这门科学的一个观点。它以时空差异关注语言的流变(theology)现象,因为语言的流变基本上是由时间和空间延展在强度和性质上的差异表现出来的。它寻求以客观和精确的方式来描写和揭示语言的基本概念、内在关系以及流变机理,追索有关语言的现实知识。
Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to "think and concentrate". Spilich put young non-smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived (被剥夺) of cigarettes through a series of tests. In the first test, each subject (试验对象) sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she reeognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and nonsmokers performed equally well. The next test was more complex, requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical letters and respond the instant one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster, but under the stimulation of nicotine (尼古丁), active smokers were faster than deprived smokers. In the third test of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers. The fourth test required people to read a passage, then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers, and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but also had trouble separating important information from insignificant details. "As our tests became more complex," sums up Spilieh, "non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins. " He predicts, "smokers might perform adequately at many jobs until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental eapaeity.\ We can infer from the last paragraph that______.
A. smokers should not expect to become airline pilots
B. smoking in emergency cases causes mental illness
C. no airline pilots smoke during flights
D. smokers may prove unequal to handling emergency cases
Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to "think and concentrate". Spilich put young non-smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived (被剥夺) of cigarettes through a series of tests. In the first test, each subject (试验对象) sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she reeognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and nonsmokers performed equally well. The next test was more complex, requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical letters and respond the instant one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster, but under the stimulation of nicotine (尼古丁), active smokers were faster than deprived smokers. In the third test of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers. The fourth test required people to read a passage, then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers, and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but also had trouble separating important information from insignificant details. "As our tests became more complex," sums up Spilieh, "non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins. " He predicts, "smokers might perform adequately at many jobs until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental eapaeity.\ The way of research in this passage is______.
A. critical analysis
B. comparison
C. sample investigation
D. cause-result analysis