历年考研英语完形填空真题及答案：2002年

　　Section II Use of English(满分10分) 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 (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 airplane. Not everyone sees the 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.

　　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

　　答案：Section II: Use of English (10 points)

　　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]

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