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Is new technology damaging our ability to communicate? Fingers flying, we ca

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问题     Is new technology damaging our ability to communicate? Fingers flying, we can blog, e-mail, or enter chat rooms. But, as we type billions of words, something is being lost. Facebook is not the same as face to face and, as our virtual skills increase, I wonder if our ability to communicate using speech is on the decline.
    Young people send me dozens of e-mails from schools. They often attach long lists of questions, to which they want detailed responses. Time is short, so I usually reply that they can phone me and I’ll do my best to answer. They very rarely do, partly because their verbal and telephone skills are less developed than their ability to type and e-mail.
    Yet to adapt an old business saying, a meeting is worth five phone calls and a phone call is worth five e-mails. Direct communication can quickly lead to bonding and trust. People are more likely to reveal what they are thinking when they actually speak to another person. Most are wary of committing themselves in writing.
    The great tragedy is that the phone was invented before the computer. If it had been the other way around, Internet forums would now be buzzing with the exciting news: "Have you heard(type, type)? There is this amazing new gadget(type). Now you can talk directly with people. And they can hear your voice. Without all this typing." Persistent marketing would do the rest and colleges would be rushing to develop new courses in telephone skills.
    But we are stuck with the supremacy of the typed word and it weakens our ability to look people in the eye and talk. A good example is how much new technology has affected public speaking.
    Does anyone else hate PowerPoint? At meetings, I internally groan as speakers load up their ponderous projections. I don’t mind maps and pictures, but all those words of text drive me crazy. "And now for my introduction ..." and up comes the word "introduction." "There are four main points" and we see "four points."
    Masses of facts and statistics follow. These should all have been given out as an information sheet. Instead, while you are trying to read through the material, the lecturer is wandering verbally all over it. There’s a confusion of focus that gives me a headache. As the slides flash by, the most important relationship in public speaking is being undermined—the link between the speaker and the audience. [br] The author believes that if the phone had been invented after the computer, people now would______.
选项 A、be eager to learn how to use the phone
B、be glad to have both means of communication
C、still prefer typing words on the computer
D、show little interest in the phone
答案 A
解析 第四段作者描述了假如先有电脑，再有电话，现在会是什么情况。互联网的论坛上大家会激动地传递这个新发明出现的消息；市场营销就会紧随其后，大学也会争相开设有关电话技能的新课程。说明人们会非常期待这个新产品，对它非常感兴趣。
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