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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   1   . As was discussed before, it was not   2   the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic_ 3 _  £¬following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the   4   of the periodical.