The power of the information age descended on China in 1989. __5__     authorities clamped down on activists afterthe carnage at Tiananmen Square, protesters around the world clogged fax machines with foreign-news coverage andmessages of solidarity. For officials accustomed to a monopoly on information, it was a startling lesson—and __6__they answered with typical low-tech efficacy. Guards were posted at fax machines across the country. The trickle ofinformation stopped. It has become commonplace, in this digital era, that electronic __7__    will spell doom for authoritarian regimes.Information, the techno-libertarians say, is now too __8__    to control. It flows in over airways, via satellites, throughmicrowave relays to cellular phones, faxes, televisions, radios, beepers, and modems. Information will mean moreopenness, as the logic __9__   , and openness will mean more freedom.
【題組】 5
(A) Though
(B) With
(C) For
(D) As