基础英语第3课unit_3_课后答案.doc

Unit 3 Alienation and the Internet Key to Exercises Text Comprehension I. B. Ⅱ. TFFTT Ⅲ. 1. As the author sees it, the Internet is most likely to make our global village a better place to live in. It provides a miraculous forum for the globalization of ideas, which contributes to the realization of human potential. Furthermore, it is a powerful tool for the acquisition and application of knowledge. The benefits of the Internet, however, may be darkened by its negative consequences. It may deprive its user of his time for necessary interaction with other society members so that the whole world may be further fragmented. In addition, there is a reasonable likelihood that the Internet presents too much information, which gives its user a skewed sense of reality by making him a cognitively overloaded man. 2. His friend was addicted to the Internet. He would spend even over twenty-four hours non-stop on the Internet so that he had to force himself to go off line. As he spent so much time in cyberspace, his sense of reality might have been crooked. Moreover, without any face-.to-face verbal communication with other people, he felt lonely and depressed. 3. The alienation of society members had begun long before the Internet started to be used worldwide. After World War 1I when the soldiers returned from the battlefields, they devoted themselves to progress. What did to achieve their goal was to manufacture large quantities of cars and make them available to most people. With the car people could travel around more easily, but at the expense of their reunion with their extended families and communications with their neighbors. Thus, it is apparent that it was the car ownership that alienated people before the Internet. In the information age, however, people are alienated not so much by cars as by the Interact. Interact addicts are far from rare. As illustrat