Unit4 TextA Technology研究生阶段核心英语课程.ppt

Main idea of each paragraph Paragraph 9: My mother’s younger brother had contracted Parkinson’s disease. In order to communicate with him, my mother had given the author an e-mail head start. Paragraph 10: E-mail may help us find those whom we want to love in the first place. Main idea of each paragraph Paragraph 11: E-mail also flattens hierarchies within the bounds of an office. Paragraph 12: E-mail’s use as a social lubricant can be taken to extremes, the lack of self-constrains encouraged by it is obvious. summary Online communication offers new possibility for transcending physical limitations. E-mail can bring us closer to those whom we love. In addition, it may help us find those whom we want to love in the first place and flattens hierarchies within the bounds of an office. Of course, e-mail’s use as a social lubricant can be taken to extremes. The dark side caused by it cannot be ignorant. Paragraph 9 My mother had given me an e-mail head start. In 1988, she bought me a modem so I could create a CompuServe account. The reason? Her younger brother had contracted a rapidly worsening case of Parkinson’s disease. He wasn’t able to talk clearly, and could hardly scrawl his name with a pen or pencil. But he had a computer, and could peck out words on a keyboard. My mom figured that if the family all had CompuServe accounts, we could send him e-mail. She grasped, long before the Internet became a household word, how online communication offered new possibilities for transcending physical limitations, how as simple a thing as e-mail could bring us closer to those whom we love. Paragraph 9 Translation: Paragraph 10 It may even help us find those whom we want to love in the first place. Jenn Shreve is a freelance writer in the San Francisco Bay Area who keeps a close eye on the emerging culture of the new online generation. For the last couple of years, she’s seen what she considers to be a positive change in online dating habits. E-mail, she argues, enc