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UNIT 2
THE INTERNET
READING
1 Read the text and decide if the following statements are true (T) or
false (F).
A The author is sure that e-mail is the latest possible invention in the
history of human communication.
B Email is especially great for those who can’t concentrate for a long
period of time.
C All users call email the most convenient thing on the Net.
D According to the survey carried out by Donna Hoffman, 225 million
people use email.
E Many shy people feel free to communicate be Email.
F More husbands can discover their wives’ affairs by reading their
private emails.
G The author was delighted by his/her friend in Taipei.
E-MAIL - A BLESSING OR A CURSE?
Last month, after a week's vacation, I discovered 1,218 unread e-mail messages
waiting in my IN box. I pretended to be dismayed, but secretly I was pleased.
This is how we measure our wired worth - if you aren't overwhelmed by e-mail,
you must be doing something wrong.
Never mind that there were perhaps seven
messages actually worth reading. I had to spend
half my workday just deleting junk. E-mail sucks.
But wait - what about those seven? A close friend in
Taipei haven't seen in five years tells me he's
planning to start a family. A complete stranger in
Belgium sends me a hot story tip. Another
stranger offers me a job. I'd rather lose an eye
than lose an e-mail account. E-mail rocks! E-
mail. Can't live with it, can't live without it. Artists,
advertisers and freedom fighters, lovers and sworn enemies - they've all
flocked to e-mail they would to any new medium of expression. E-mail is
convenient, saves time, brings us closer to one another, helps us manage our
ever-more-complex lives. Books are written, campaigns conducted, crimes
committed - all via e-mail. But it is also inconvenient, wastes our time, isolates us
in front of our computers and introduces more complexity into our already
too-hurried lives. To skeptics, e-mail is just the latest chapter in the evolving history of
human communication. A snooping husband now discovers his wife's affair by
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