北师大版高中英语必修2unit4（全套ppt课件 ）.ppt

Unit 4　Cyberspace教材背景链接;;If the letter really is disappearing fast，now might be a good time to chew over what we are about to lose. The Effect of Email The coming of email has played much the biggest role in the fate(命运) of the letter.“In the Victorian era，letter-writing was what people did in their spare time，and then they read the letters to each other.In a way，it was the news，as much as anything，”the novelist A．S. Byatt says.;There is only one problem：what her trust on computer-based communication will mean for her works.“I’ve been talking to the people in the British Library，who are interested in my archive(档案文件)，but it’s not going to be easy for them，because technology keeps changing，”she says.“Very often，they can’t read the computer material they’ve collected.At last they’d like to take away a copy of my hard disk.They still love ink on paper.” The Problems Biographers Will Meet;And so we arrive at one of the more worrying results of the change from paper to computers：if emails now note the progress of important lives down，how will future biographers manage? “From that point of view，it’s a completely disappointing thing，”says the novelist and biographer D．J.Taylor，whose Life of William Makepeace Thackeray used a lot of handwritten letters.“Thackeray always thought that he wasn’t much of a letter-writer，but he wrote 15 every morning.In some ways，it’s the only way that you can follow his life.”;“Long letters between people who know each other well are quite a complicated(复杂的) way of talk，”he says.“The problem is not so much the difference between the letter and the email；the problem is whether anybody is going to keep those forms of communication.If you’re a famous writer，and you’re sending emails to your friends，are you going to copy them？I don’t know.” The Future of Letter-writing;Behind the disappointing statistics(统计数字)，letter-writers can find cause for hope.The simple number of letters may seem to be falling，but there are signs of interest in the world