Question

 

For centuries, the only form of written correspondence（通信）was the letter. Letters were, and are sent by some form of postal service, the history of which goes back a long way. Indeed, the Egyptians began sending letters from about 2000 BC, as did the Chinese a thousand years later.

Of course, modern postal services now are much more developed and faster, depending as they do on cars and planes for delivery. Yet they are still too slow for some people to send urgent documents（緊急文件）and letters.

The invention of the fax（傳真）machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more. When you send a fax , your are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service. It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for business to be able to fax documents to each other.

The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent, but, as a way of fast correspondence, it has been largely taken the place of by email. Email is used to describe messages sent from one computer user to another.

There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send someone an email, then he will receive it extremely quickly. Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned.

However, if you write something by email, which you might later regret, and send it immediately, there is no chance for second thoughts. At least, if your posting a letter you have to address and seal（封）the envelope and take it to the post box. There is plenty of time to change your mind. The message is think before your email!

1.We can learn from the text that_______.

A. the postal service has over the years become slower

B. email is less popular than the fax service

C. the postal service has over the years become faster

D. the fax service has a history as long as the postal service does

2.It can be inferred from the text that ______.

A. the fax machine was invented after the 1980s

B. letters have been used in China for about 1,000 years

C. the fax service had been fully developed by the 1980s

D. letters have been used in Egypt for about 2,000 years

3.In the last paragraph , the writer mentions “think before you email” to show that______.

A. you’d better not send your email in a hurry

B. you may regret if you don’t seal your envelope

C. you may regret before you send something by email

D. you need plenty of time to send an email

4.The text mainly deals with ________.

A. the invention of fax machines

B. the advantage of fax machines

C. the advantage of emails

D. the progress in correspondence

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

【解析】幾個世紀以來，從早期的書信到后來的傳真一直到現在的email，我們的通信技術發生了很大變化，最主要體現在它的速度上。

【考點】細節歸納題。

2.C

【解析】根據第三段It was not until the early 1980s …developed enough …可知到20世紀80年代，傳真技術有了充分的發展。

【考點】推理判斷題。

3.A

【解析】從最后一段來看，email一旦發出就不能更改，而傳統的書信在投遞之前有足夠的時間進行修改，所以作者認為我們不能匆忙發出email。

【考點】句意理解題。

4.D

【解析】從整個文章來看，早期的書信通訊非常慢，后來的傳真和email都相繼提高了速度，這無疑是通訊事業的進步。

【考點】主旨大意題。