Paragraf tamamlamaSoru #8956
Complete the paragraph with the most appropriate option:
The invention of the submarine telegraph cable in the mid-19th century transformed intercontinental communication. Prior to undersea cables, transmitting a diplomatic dispatch or business contract across the Atlantic Ocean took at least ten days aboard fast steamships. ---- With electrical telegraph pulses flashing across the ocean floor in mere minutes, global commerce, news reporting, and foreign diplomacy entered the instantaneous modern era.
The invention of the submarine telegraph cable in the mid-19th century transformed intercontinental communication. Prior to undersea cables, transmitting a diplomatic dispatch or business contract across the Atlantic Ocean took at least ten days aboard fast steamships. ---- With electrical telegraph pulses flashing across the ocean floor in mere minutes, global commerce, news reporting, and foreign diplomacy entered the instantaneous modern era.
- A)Telegraph cables frequently snapped due to severe underwater seismic tremors and fishing trawlers.
- B)However, the successful laying of the transatlantic cable in 1866 collapsed that spatial barrier forever.
- C)Early telegraph operators had to master Morse code to transcribe incoming electrical clicking sounds.
- D)Steamships continued to carry bulk cargo and passengers across the Atlantic throughout the Gilded Age.
- E)Radio communication eventually rendered undersea telegraph cables obsolete in the mid-20th century.
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Doğru cevap: B) However, the successful laying of the transatlantic cable in 1866 collapsed that spatial barrier forever.
Çözüm: Boşluktan önce mektupların buharlı gemilerle en az 10 gün sürdüğü, boşluktan sonra ise telgraf sinyallerinin dakikalar içinde okyanusu aştığı anlatılmaktadır. B seçeneğindeki "However, the successful laying of the transatlantic cable in 1866 collapsed that spatial barrier forever" geçişi tam sağlar.