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Summary writing

X. Read the following passages and answer the questions.

Electronic mail may be one of the great conveniences of modern life, but it isn’t very portable. In order to read and send e-mail, your computer and software normally must travel with you. But a-new breed of web based e-mail service – many of them free – lets you check and reply to e-mail from any computer with an Internet connection.

Hotmail (www.hotmail.com), recently acquired by Microsoft, and Bigfoot (www.bigfoot.com) were two of the first “e-mail anywhere” providers. But they’ve been joined by popular web search services such as Yahoo and Excite. AH work similarly. Yahoo Mail (mail.yahoo.com), for example, is free and lets you send or receive e-mail from any computer. You simply log on to the Yahoo website and enter a password to check your mail. You can also access your e-mail from other systems that use a standard “post office protocol” (called POPS, used by most office networks).

Aside from the fact that it is-free, one of the best perks of web-based e-mail is that you get a permanent e-mail address you can keep even if you switch to a different Internet service provider or browser software. And the e-mail software is built into the website, so there’s never any upgrading required.

Questions:

A. What does the writer mean by the phrase “Electronic mail... isn’t very portable”?

В. What differences are there between the various web-mail services as far as the way in which their function is concerned?

С. What do you have to do to check your e-mail if you’re using Yahoo web-mail?

D. What are the two major advantages of web-based e-mail apart from the facts that it is free and that you can access it from anywhere?

XI. Use the words given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the space on the same line. Finding nformation

Almost one in ten children have stopped using (0) refer ( reference) books and are relying on electronic sources, chiefly the Internet, to get their information, according to a full study of reading habits.

All age groups of the (1) Populate (__________) were involved in the survey from young children to the elderly. The report offers the first (2) statistic (___________) evidence that a new generation of children growing up in the microchip era has (3) mark (____________) different attitudes to the (4) acquire (___________) of knowledge from those of their parents. After the age of five, a small (5) minor (___________) about 15% make use of electronic sources. However, this percentage increases (6) drama (___________) to more than half for 12-16 year olds, where (7) digit (___________) sources of information are used in favour of text-books. After this age, the (8) percent (___________) of people using technology to acquire information falls sharply and books, (9) popular (___________) in earlier ages, are more widely used. Evidence also reveals a (10) substance (___________) difference in the attitude of parents and their offspring to attaining knowledge. The 180-page study indicates that the old habit of reading books continues to flourish despite all counter attractions, as by far the biggest cultural pastime in Britain.