negatives外研社新标准大学英语三级网上考试答案Unit4

2021年1月27日发(作者：sohe)
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Communication
For many of us, communicating with family used to mean
sending letters and cards through the
mail and getting no response until weeks later. We'd pass hand- written notes to friends in class.
We'd pick up the telephone
—
paying for long-distance calls, no less
—
and could
only talk to
one
person
at
a
time.
On
top
of
that,
there
were
no
answering
machines
to
leave
messages
if
a
person wasn't home, or Caller ID to screen calls if we
didn't feel like picking up the phone. And
pay phones were the only option to call home if our car broke down on the side of the road, or if
we had to stay after school.
The Good:


For the past decade or so, technology has transformed the way we communicate, in part due to
the
advent
of
the
Internet.
Instead
of
mailing
letters,
we're
writing
e-mails
through
Gmail
or
Windows Live Hotmail that can be sent instantaneously to a recipient.


We
can
even
add
multiple
recipients
to
these
e-mails,
so
that
more
than
one
person
can
read
them.


Even
more,
we
can
send
greeting
cards
over
the
Web
with
sites
like

and
. No postage needed!

Sending a note to a friend can be done in a matter of seconds


through instant message clients like AOL instant messenge and Meebo. With them, we can see if
a

is
available
or
away,
talk
to
multiple
people
at
a
time,

and

using
emoticons,
ignore
a
message
if
we
don't
feel
like
talking,
and
send
links
to
our
favorite
Web
articles and videos.

We
are
no
longer
bound
to
long-distance
charges,
either.
Many
folks
have
already
kicked
their
landline
phones
to
the
curb
and
replaced
them
with
Voice
-over-Internet
protocol
(VoIP)
and
mobile
phones.
We
can
place
free
video
calls
(yes,
we
can
see
the
person
we're
talking
to)
to
anyone in the world over the Internet by using Skype and a headset. For a monthly
paid
service
we can make regular phone calls over the Internet using the popular Vonage service or signing up
for VoIP through our cable company.


Mobile phones have become a godsend gift, letting us place calls no matter where we are

—
on the way to work, at the beach, at school, etc.


Even text messaging has become an efficient way to get a short message across,
such as
you there at 8

The Bad:
It's true that technology
has also
made
society
somewhat impersonal. Here at PC Magazine we
communicate with each other mostly through e-mail and instant message. As a result, it's difficult
to
tell
when
a
person
is
serious
or
sarcastic
—
our
clever
turns
of
phrase
can
easily
be
misconstrued.
Technology
tends
to
make
communication
drag
out
more
than
it
has
to,
too;
sometimes
it's quicker to just get out of your seat and walk to the person, or simply pick
up the
phone.

Even worse, younger generations have forgotten how to spell and write complete sentences due
to the increased use of text messaging on mobile phones. The State Examination Commission out
of Dublin, Ireland said in a report that in many cases, teenagers seemed
sentences,
simple
tenses,
and
a
limited
vocabulary
and
that
with
the
use
of
ph
onetic
spelling
and little or no punctuation, it's
beginning to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing,
not to mention oral communication.
In addition, we've seen how addicted
people can become to their
smartphones,
like the Apple
iPhone
and
the
BlackBerry
Storm
9530.
(You've
probably
heard
the
term
for
it:

People possess an obsessive need to constantly check their e-mail, even when on vacation with
the family. It's as if we're afraid we'll miss something important or
be
out
of the
loop. If there
isn't a group for BlackBerry addicts, there should be.
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Next: Computing >






Major Essay Proposal





The
essay
topic
I
have
selected
is
home
computers.
I
would
like
to
compare
the
impacts
of
computers on society with those of other major technologies and try to argue as well as conclude
that home computers have had the greatest impact since the printing press.






My focus in the essay will be
how computer technologies are applied to every respect of every
day life. My goal is to illustrate as well as convince that without computers, we can not live a life
like we do today, but without other technologies, and we may survive. A very simple generalized
reason is that computers now can achieve almost everything some other technologies can.





A tentative outline is (sections and section headings subject to change):


Introduction

Overview of computers’ development

Computers’
contribution
to
society
in
comparison
with
other
major
technologies
such
as
television, operating system, radio or telegraph etc and give examples to support my view

Use as my references well-known recent articles and try to summarize the main point

Computers’ impact in the future

What have I learned from all this

Conclusions

References




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Introduction



Computers are commonly us
ed items in many areas. It is an important
thing to people, especially the people who run
organizations
, industry,
etc. Almost anything you know is run or made by computers. Cars and
jets were
designed
on computers, traffic
signals
are run by computers,
most
medical
equipment
use
computers
and
space
exploration
was