Question

    For centuries,the only form of written correspondence (通信)was the letters, 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 service 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，you 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 businesses 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 form one computer user to another.

   There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send some one 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 you are 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 you email!

41.We can learn from the text that__________.

A.email is less popular than the fax service        

B.the postal service has over the years become faster

C. the postal service has over the years become slower

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

42.It can be inferred from the text that_________.

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

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

C. the fax machine was invented after the 1980s

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

43.In the last paragraph, the writer mentions "think before you email" to show that________.

A. you may regret if you don’t your envelope         B. you may regret before you send something by email

C. you’d better not send your email in a hurry     D. you need plenty of time to send an email

44.The text mainly deal with_________.

A. the progress in correspondence                      B. the advantage of fax machines

C .the advantage of emails                                 D. the invention of fax machines

Answer 1

B   42．A   43．C   44．A 

解析:

41．解析：這是一道細節推斷題。根據第二段第一句“modern postal services now are much developed and faster”可知選B。

42．解析：這是一道推斷題。根據“It was not until the early 1980s that such a service has developed enough …”可以推斷20世紀80年代初fax已經比較發達可以滿足商用了，所以選A.

43．解析：這是一道細節題。由于email方便高速，可供考慮的時間很短，如果發現問題就來不及了，所以作者建議發送前多想想，選C.

44．解析：這是一道主旨題。本文講述了通訊的發展和由此帶來的變化，著重于不同通訊方式的比較和發展過程，而不是單單針對某種方式來講述。A 選項最貼近這一點。