Unit 3 Alienation and the Internet习题答案综合教程四.docVIP

Unit 3 Alienation and the Internet Key to the Exercises Text comprehension I. Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose of writing. B II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. 1. T (Refer to Paragraph 1.) 2. F (Refer to Paragraph 2. When the author says this might sound like an apparent contradiction, he implies that this is in fact not a contradiction at all. Throughout the whole essay, the author explains the seemingly contradictory idea: on the one hand the Internet is responsible for global unification, and on the other it alienates the participants.) 3. F (Refer to Paragraph 3, where the author, by saying I have not known this fellow to be given to exaggeration? actually means that to the best of his knowledge, this friend of his has never exaggerated anything.) 4. T (Refer to Paragraph 4. At the end of this paragraph, the author argues that when people spend much time developing on-line relationships with faraway folks, they will have no time to participate in communal activities, which undermines the sense of community.) 5. T (Refer to Paragraph 6. In this paragraph, the author argues that when surfing the Web a person might be cognitively overloaded and that the cognitive overload might result in a distorted sense of reality.) III. Answer the following questions. 1. Refer to Paragraph 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 the 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 p