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suggestion to your superiors and colleagues via e-mail than it is to do so in a
pressure-filled meeting room. "Any time when you have something that is difficult to
say, e-mail can make it easier," she says. "It serves as a buffer zone."
If it is true that hours spent on the Net are often hours subtracted from
watching television, one could argue that the digital era has raised the curtains
on a new age of literacy - more people are writing more words than ever
before! But what kind of words are we writing? Are we really more literate, or are
we sliding ever faster into a quicksand of meaningless irrelevance, of pop-
cultural triviality?
2 Complete the sentences according to the information from the text.
1 The author found in his/her IN box seven
letters which were
2 Advertising campaigns are conducted, laws
are broken, people get married
3 Email accelerates
4 The Net constantly contributes to the changes
of
5 Email helps people to cope with the pressure
of
6 Some very shy people are encouraged by the
Net (or email)
A work and life.
B worth reading.
C to build relations.
D the pace of our life.
E the way we interact with
each other.
F all via email.
3 Choose the correct answer to the questions.
1 What was the author’s reaction on 1,218 emails in his/her IN box?
a. He/she was secretly dismayed.
b. He/she was secretly pleased.
c. He/she was dismayed but secretly pleased.
2 What are the conveniences provided by email?
a. It saves time and brings us close to one another.
b. It saves our time but isolates us from the real world.
c. It saves our time and wastes it as well.
3 Did anyone plan or predict email?
a. Eric Allman, chief technical officer of Sendmail developed this net service.
b. Eric Allman contributed a lot to the modern way of communication.
c. Eric Allan just wanted to facilitate his life but he didn’t anticipate all the
advantages of email.
4 What did scientists originally plan the Internet for?
a. The main goal was to enable the disparate computers to be connected.
b. Their primary goal was to send email around.
c. The scientists wanted to enable computer centers to exchange the stored
information.
5 What’s wrong about email?
a It is the last page in the history of human communication.
b It can cause commitment crimes on the Net.
c It makes our complex life more difficult.
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