【填空题】2-2-3 课文听写填空.mp3As it turns out, the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" 1)___________ a cartoon strip of that name that 2)___________ in 1913 and ran for 26 years. In the strip,creator "Pop" Momand poked fun at our need to do things inorder to 3) ___________ other people. I'd love to say that need 4)___________ when the last episode of that comic strip ran,but alas, it seems to have only gotten worse. These days wedon't care about the Joneses, we're trying to keep up withthe Kardashians.Which really gets to the 5) ___________ of the matter? Whois telling us that we need to keep up with the Kardashians?The media. Until the late 1880s, magazines were not 6)___________ . They were for the rich, who could afford both 7)_________________________ to read them. But toward theend of the 19th century, two events happened that foreverchanged our world: second class mail 8)_________________________ and the rotary printing press wasinvented. This 9) ___________ of magazines so thatthey were 10) ___________ for the working class. Massmedia was born. And this opened up a whole new world.

【填空题】 2-2-3 课文听写填空.mp3 As it turns out, the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" 1) ___________ a cartoon strip of that name that 2) ___________ in 1913 and ran for 26 years. In the strip, creator "Pop" Momand poked fun at our need to do things in order to 3) ___________ other people. I'd love to say that need 4) ___________ when the last episode of that comic strip ran, but alas, it seems to have only gotten worse. These days we don't care about the Joneses, we're trying to keep up with the Kardashians. Which really gets to the 5) ___________ of the matter? Who is telling us that we need to keep up with the Kardashians? The media. Until the late 1880s, magazines were not 6) ___________ . They were for the rich, who could afford both 7) _________________________ to read them. But toward the end of the 19th century, two events happened that forever changed our world: second class mail 8) _________________________ and the rotary printing press was invented. This 9) ___________ of magazines so that they were 10) ___________ for the working class. Mass media was born. And this opened up a whole new world.