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7. How does Twitter work? What should you do if you want to use it for communications with others?

The service allows users to send 140-character messages to people who have subscribed to see them, called followers. So instead of sending an email to friends announcing that you just got a new job, you can just tweet it for all the people who have chosen to 'follow' you to see. You can create links to particular users in messages by entering @ followed by their user name or send private 'direct messages' through the system by typing d and the user name.

8. Do you use Facebook or other new services to keep touch with your friends? How does a user of Facebook do to inform friends of his or her updates?

It is very simple. A user just needs to post status updates that show up in their friends' 'streams.' They can also post links to content and comment on it. No in-box required by resorting to this new service.

9. These new services offer the users both the speed and ease of communication, does this mean that there is no weakness as to the new ways of communication?

As a matter of fact, the speed and ease of communication cut both ways. While making communication more frequent, they can also make it less personal and intimate. Communicating is becoming so easy that the recipient knows how little time and thought was required of the sender. Yes, your half-dozen closest friends can read your vacation updates. But so can your 500 other 'friends.' And if you know all these people are reading your updates, you might say a lot less than you would otherwise. It becomes harder for us to determine the importance of various messages. It also makes us even more dependent on technology to help us communicate.

10. What is the biggest change that these email successors bring? What do you think of the big change?

The biggest change that these email successors bring is more of a public profile for users. In the email world, you are your name followed by a 'dot-com.' That's it. In the new messaging world, you have a higher profile, packed with data you

want to share and possibly some you don't. Such a public profile has its pluses and minuses. It can draw the people communicating closer, allowing them to exchange not only text but also all sorts of personal information, even facial cues. You know a lot about the person you are talking to, even before you've ever exchanged a single word.

II. Vocabulary

1. takes hold 2. vying… for 3. suit… to 4. prosperity 5. a host of 6. status 7. gripe about 8. crafted 9. show up 10. downside 11. fired off 12. filtered 13. deluge 14. cue 15. subscribe

III. Translation 1.

(1) 1. a host of new ways to communicate 一系列新的通信方式 2. a response to an email 电子邮件回复 3. over instant messaging 通过及时消息

4. currently in test phase 目前处于测试阶段 5. enter comments 输入评论 6. little wonder that 难怪

7. a half-hour delay in getting an email 电子邮件接收迟了半小时 8. a text message to go through 一条文字信息的传送 9. a blog comment 博客评论 10. in real time online 实时地在网上

(2) 互联网到底是什么？

或者，当我说起互联网协议，你却想起不搭界的西红柿？ 互联网到底是什么？

对有些人来说，互联网是他们跟朋友交流、读取新闻、购物、打游戏的地方。对另外一些人来说，互联网意味着他们当地的宽带供应商通过地下电缆和光纤提供跨越城市和海洋的数据传输服务。谁的意见更确切？

互联网最先起始于1974年。那一年，智能化计算机研究人员发明了一种互联网协议组，简写就是TCP/IP，TCP/IP协议生成一套规则，充许不同的电脑之间进行―对话―，并来来回回传送信息。

TCP/IP协议 与人际间交往相似：当我们互相说话的时候，语法规则生成语言结构，使人们能够相互理解并交换想法。同样地，TCP/IP协议约定信息交流的规则，确保相互联接的设备之间相互理解并不断传递信息。当这些互联的设备从一间屋子连向多间屋子——然后连到许多建筑群，最后到将许多城市和国家联结到一起——这样互联网就诞生了。 2.

(1) 1. 判断各种信息重要性 determine the importance of various messages

2. 屈指可数的几个朋友 a handful of friends 3. 创建链接 create links 4. 收件箱 in-box

5. 双刃剑 cut both ways

6. 发送各种各样的信息 fire off all sorts of messages 7. 对全部信息都置之不理 tune out messages altogether 8. 电子邮件的这些接班人 email successors

9. 有利也有弊 has its pluses and minuses 10. 甚至是面部表情 even facial cues

(2) the reign of Gorge III. (3) take hold of my hand (4) Thanks to this contract

(5) but got stuck in the last one (6) gripe about hospital services

(7) All the good stuff in the house belonged to only me, and there were no brothers or

sisters to vie with me for my parents' love.

(8) As they had been intimate from their earliest youth, the force of habit maintained peace between them.

(9) Today let 's start all over again and figure out just how we are going to market this product. (10) If, by chance, the recipient of the message happens to be online at the time that your message is received, a response may be back in just minutes. (11) Don t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. (12) Email can be a great tool in helping us multitask and set our own timetables for communicating with friends, family and co-workers. In related research, email may make users feel less responsible for telling the truth. people are more willing to lie when communicating via email than with pen and paper, and feel more justified doing so. This was true regardless of whether the writers were told their falsehood would be discovered by others. …… 此处隐藏：3004字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……