Question

【題目】 Do you know anything about email?

Email is a kind of communication that is changing, for the worse, the way we write and use language, say some communication experts. "Email has helped the spread of careless writing habits,” says Baron, a professor at an American university. She says the poor spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure in emails show the growing unconcern about the way we write. Baron argues that we shouldn’t forgive and forget the poor writing in emails. “The more we use the email, the more it becomes the normal way of writing,” the professor says.

Others say that though it has poor writing, email has done what several generations (代）of English teachers couldn’t do. It has made writing fashionable again.

“Email is a new communication technology,” says Ian Lancashire, a professor of English at Toronto University. “It fills the gap (缺口）between spoken language and the formal (正式的）methods of writing. It is the purest form of written speech.”

Lancashire says email can help people who are usually afraid of writing to get their thoughts flowing easily onto a blank screen. He says this is because email is close to speech. “It’s like a circle of four or five people around a campfire,” he says.

Still, he accepts that this freedom to express themselves often gets people into trouble. The number of emails sent in a day almost is the number of letters mailed in a year. But more people are recognizing the content (內(nèi)容）of a typical email message is not often exact.

【1】What can we know according to Baron?

A. Email changes the way people communicate in everyday life.

B. People should check the email many times before sending it.

C. More people don’t take the mistakes seriously when writing an email.

D. Email has become a normal way of writing.

【2】What does the underlined word “it” refer to?

A. Email.B. The poor writing.C. The good writing.D. The communication technology.

【3】Ian Lancashire thinks

A. email makes writing become popular againB. it is helpful for people to use email to express themselves

C. emails are easier to write than lettersD. people should remember the mistakes in emails

【4】What’s the main idea of this passage?

A. People should stop using email to communicate.B. People have different opinions about email.

C. People should learn to write email correctly.D. People have realized the importance of good writing.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】B

【4】B

【解析】

本篇文章難度適中，主要講述郵件使寫信這種古老的溝通方式恢復(fù)了生機(jī)，但是電子郵件寫信也出現(xiàn)了一些問題，專家對(duì)此也有一些不同的看法。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)Email has helped the spread of careless writing habits,” says Baron, a professor at an American university. She says the poor spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure in emails show the growing unconcern about the way we write. Baron argues that we shouldn’t forgive and forget the poor writing in emails可知，電子郵件助長(zhǎng)了粗心寫作習(xí)慣，糟糕的拼寫、語法、標(biāo)點(diǎn)和句子結(jié)構(gòu)，人們對(duì)寫信中的錯(cuò)誤沒有認(rèn)真對(duì)待，故選C。

【2】代詞指代題。代詞代指上文中出現(xiàn)的內(nèi)容。根據(jù)Baron argues that we shouldn’t forgive and forget the poor writing in emails可知，表示的是寫作能力低，故選B。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Lancashire says email can help people who are usually afraid of writing to get their thoughts flowing easily onto a blank screen. He says this is because email is close to speech. “It’s like a circle of four or five people around a campfire,” he says可知，對(duì)于人們來說用電子郵件對(duì)表達(dá)他們自己是有幫助的，故選B。

【4】主旨大意題。本文主要講述郵件使寫信這種古老的溝通方式恢復(fù)了生機(jī)，但是電子郵件寫信也出現(xiàn)了一些問題，專家對(duì)此也有一些不同的看法。故選B。