[单项选择] Radio and cinema had one novelty in common: they were forms of communication which dispensed with the written word. The written word had gone hand in hand with civilization from the beginning. Now, theoretically, an illiterate could be as well-informed about the world as the best-read man. Reading might have been expected to decline as a result, but this did not happen. Perhaps the habit was too inbred. Besides, primary education, now almost universal in Europe, made literacy also universal, which had greatly increased their circulation during the First World War, continued to do so after it. In Great Britain, which carried the process furthest, the press by 1930 ranked twelfth among British industries, ahead of shipbuilding. Newspapers now counted their readers by millions where they had previously counted their readers by thousands. They had bigger headlines, shorter paragraphs, simpler writing. They derived their incomes mainly from advertisements, not from the halfpennies or pe
A. had read a lot
B. could read very well
C. could not write
D. was familiar with civilized customs

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