"Where is the bus ’I asked myself. I was going to be late (36) the manager wasn’t going to be (37) . "Thank Good, here it is!" The bus (38) round the corner and I got on. Ten minutes later I was walking into the (39) where I work. "Twenty-five past nine. I (40) the manager dosen’t notice. "But no (41) luck!
"Smith ! "shouted the manager. "Late again. What’s your (42) this time"" I’m afraid the bus was late, Mr. Brown."" (43) up eariler tomrrow! Anyway, go to your (44) at the counter. We’ll be opening in a few minutes. "
My. first customer was a pretty girl wearing a red dress. (45) her was a young man of about 25. He seemed very (46) , and every few seconds he looked (47) the main en-trance. The girl (48) about opening a bank account. I gave her the necessary (49) and
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Passage Five
The year 2000 will bring big changes in communication Cell phones will be small enough to carry in your pocket. Videophones will let you see the person you are talking to on the phone. Tiny hand size computers will know your favorite subjects. The Internet and email will be everywhere.
Technologists believe 2000 will be the year of video messaging. You will be able to see whom you’re talking to.
Also in the near future small wireless boxes will pick up information from satellites. In 5 years, computers won’t need to be connected through wires.
All of this will be good for rural areas and countries that don’t have cattle or telephone now.
In 20 years you may only need to think about something and the computer will do it.
Constance Hale is the author of Sin and Syntax, "I believe that email has been an incredible boon to communication. People are writing today where they would have been telep
A. People want to see the person they are talking to on the phone.
B. Email is easier than talking on the phone.
C. People are using writing and reading more with email.
D. Email is not private enoug
Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. (31) much had happened between. As was discussed before, the newspaper did not become the (32) pre-electronic medium until the 19th century, (33) in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (34) of the periodical. It was during the same time (35) the communications revolution speeded up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading on through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures (36) the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in (37) . It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, (38) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, followed by the (39) of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, (40) its impact on the media w
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