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　　Even ___1___ analysts disagree about the causal forces that ___2___ globalization, most agree that globalization should be conceived as a relatively long-term process. The triad ___3___ deterritorialization, interconnectedness, and social acceleration hardly ___4___ a sudden or recent event in contemporary social life. Globalization is a ___5___ feature of the modern world, and modern history includes many examples of globalization. As we saw above, nineteenth-century thinkers __6__ at least some of its core features; the compression of territoriality composed an important element of their __7__ experience. Nonetheless, some contemporary theorists believe that globalization has taken a particularly intense ___8___ in recent decades, as innovations in communication, transportation, and information technologies (for ___9___, computerization) have generated stunning new ___10___ for simultaneity and instantaneousness. In this view, present-day intellectual interest in the problem of globalization can be___11___ directly to the emergence of new high-speed technologies that tend to minimize the significance __12__ distance and heighten possibilities for deterritorialization and social interconnectedness. Although the intense sense of territorial compression experienced by so many of our contemporaries is surely reminiscent of the experiences of ___13___ generations, some contemporary writers nonetheless argue that it would be mistaken to obscure the countless ways in which ongoing transformations of the ___14___ and temporal contours of human experience are especially far-reaching. While our nineteenth-century predecessors understandably  marveled __15__ the railroad or the telegraph, a comparatively vast array of social activities is now being __16__ by innovations that ___17___ social activity and considerably deepen longstanding ___18___ towards deterritorialization and social interconnectedness. To be sure, the impact of deterritorialization, social interconnectedness, and social acceleration are by no means universal or uniform: migrant workers engaging in traditional forms of low-wage agricultural labor in the fields of southern California, for example, probably operate in a different spatial and temporal context than the Internet entrepreneurs of San Francisco or Seattle. Distinct assumptions about space and ___19___ often coexist uneasily during a specific historical juncture. Nonetheless, the impact of recent technological innovations is profound, and even those who do not have a job directly __20__ by the new technology are shaped by it in innumerable ways as citizens and consumers.

1.[A] although　　[B] the　　[C] though　　[D] those

2. [A] produce　　[B] generate　　[C] bring　　[D] create

3.[A] in　　[B] of　　[C] at　　[D] on

4.[A] represented　　[B] represent　　[C] representing　　[D] represents

5.[A] constant　　[B] constitutive　　[C] constituent　　[D] constitutional

6.[A] gained　　[B] arrested　　[C] captured　　[D] seized

7.[A] living　　[B] alive　　[C] lively　　[D] lived

8.[A] place　　[B] form　　[C] style　　[D] way

9.[A] example　　[B] good　　[C] ever　　[D] once

10.[A] probability　　[B] possibilities　　[C] certainty　　[D] certainties

11.[A] linked　　[B] fastened　　[C] associated　　[D] connected

12.[A] at　　[B] of　　[C] with　　[D] in

13.[A] early　　[B] late　　[C] later　　[D] earlier

14.[A] spacious　　[B] special　　[C] specific　　[D] spatial

15.[A] in　　[B] with　　[C] at　　[D] for

16.[A] transformed　　[B] transferred　　[C] translated　　[D] transported

17.[A] accelerate　　[B] hasten　　[C] hurry　　[D] decelerate

18.[A] tendencies　　[B] trends　　[C] currents　　[D] inclinations

19.[A] times　　[B] timing　　[C] timely　　[D] time

20.[A] affection　　[B] affected　　[C] affectionate　　[D] affect