100篇短文突破高考英语词汇word文档及朗读MP3（91-95篇）.docVIP

第91篇 Encouraged by electronic mails surprisingly high speed, convenience and economy, people who never before touched the stuff are regularly, skillfully, even cheerfully tapping out a great deal of correspondence. These days, electronic networks are the route to colleagues in distant countries, shared data, bulletin (公告) boards and electronic journals. Anyone with a personal computer, a modem and the software to link computers over telephone lines can sign on. Its estimated(估计) that five million scientists have done so with more joining everyday, most of them communicating through a bundle of interconnected domestic and foreign routes known collectively as the Internet, or net. E-mail is starting to edge out the fax, the telephone, overnight mail, and of course, land mail. It shrinks time and distance between scientific collaborators(合作者),in part because it is very convenient -writers can type while their colleagues across time zones sleep; Their message will be waiting. If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication. Many people have been discovering its connective virtues. Physicists are using it; college students are using it, everybody is using it everywhere, and as a sign that it has come of age, the New Yorker has celebrated its liberating presence with a cartoon-an appreciative dog seated at a keyboard, saying happily,?On the Internet, nobody knows youre a dog.?受到电邮惊人的高速度、方便、经济的诱惑，以前从没接触过这种东西的人也定期熟练地，甚至兴高采烈地敲出大量信件(tap out a great deal of correspondence)。 现在，电子网络是联络远方国家同事，分享数据、公告和电子杂志的途径。任何有个人电脑、调制解调器(modem)通过电话线上网软件(-software)的人都可以登陆。据估计500万科学家早已在这样做，而且每天都有更多的入加入，他们大部分通过被统称为互联网的一束相互联接的国内和国外的线路交流。电邮正在取代传真、电话、隔夜邮件，当然还有陆地邮件。它缩短(shrink)了科研合作者之间的时间和距离，部分地是因为它非常方便——写信者可以在他们跨时区(time zone)的同事睡眠时打信,他们的信息将会等待。即使它还不能让人迅速地发现，也无疑使交流加速。 很多人已发现了它在交流上的优点。物理学家在用它，大学生在用它，每个地方、每个人都在使用它。作为它已成熟的标志，纽约克用一幅卡通来庆祝它对人必须在场的解放(liberate)—— 一只面露欣喜之色的狗坐在键盘前，高兴地说：“在互联网上，没有人知道你是一条狗。” 第92篇 The volcano is one of the most surprising and frightening forces