第1题: [单项选择]The telegraph opened up the possibility of establishing almost______ communication and thereby offered many practical advantages to people in all walks of life. A. distant B. instantaneous C. immediate D. transient 参考答案:B 答案解析:这是一道词义辨析题,instantaneous 表示“即刻的,瞬间的,即时的,猝然的”,符合本句的题意:distant,“遥远的”,如:The foreign visitors came from a