高考英语阅读分类复：历史类.docVIP

[高考-分类阅读-3] [历史类] [2008/9/23] PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT - 1 - 新课标高考英语阅读分类复习：历史类 第1题(年普通高等学校夏季招生考试英语陕西卷) ??? For centuries,the only form of written correspondence (通信)was the letters, letters were, and are, sent by some form of postal service, the history of which goes back a long way .Indeed, the Egyptians began sending letters from about BC,as did the Chinese a thousand years later. ?? Of course, modern postal service now are much more developed and faster, depending as they do on cars and planes for delivery. Yet they are still too slow for some people to send urgent documents (紧急文件)and letters. ?? The invention of the fax (传真) machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more. When you send a fax，you are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service. It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for businesses to be able to fax documents to each other. ?? The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent ,but, as a way of fast correspondence, it has been largely taken the place of by email ,Email is used to describe messages sent form one computer user to another. ?? There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send some one an email , then he will receive it extremely quickly .Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned. ??? However, if you write something by email, which you might later regret ,and send it immediately, there is no chance for second thoughts. At least, if you are posting a letter you have to address and seal(封)the envelope and take it to the post box.There is plenty of time to change your mind .The message is think before you email! 41.We can learn from the text that__________. A.email is less popular than the fax service??? B.the postal service has over the years become faster C.?the postal service has over the years become slower D. the fax service has a history as long as the postal serv