E-mail—can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Con artists and real artists, advertisers and freedom fighters, lovers and sworn enemies-they’ve all flocked to email as they would to any new medium of expression. E-mail is convenient, saves time, brings us closer to one another, helps us manage our ever-more-complex lives. Books are written, campaigns conducted; crimes committed-all via e-mail. But it is also inconvenient, wastes our time, isolates us in front of our computers and introduces more complexity into our already too-harried lives. To skeptics, E-mails just the latest chapter in the evolving history of human communication. A snooping husband now discovers his wife’s affair by reading her private e-mail--but he could have uncovered the same sin by finding letters a generation ago.
Yet E-mail-and all online communication-is in fact something truly different; it captures the essence of life at the close of the 20th century with an a
A. they think as the latest invention in communication technology it hasn’t reach its best
B. they think it may be replaced by newer communication technology it does the older ways of communication
C. they think it is no better than the older ways of communication
D. they think its invention is one inevitable step in human evolution just like that of the older ways of communication
CARIFF, Wales poets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered in Wales to celebrate the tradition of storytelling.
"It might seem strange that people still want to listen to it instead of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again," said David Ambrose, director of "Beyond the Border", an international storytelling festival in Wales.
"Some of the tales, like those of the Inuit from Canada, are thousands of years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time," he said early this month.
Two Inuit women, both in their mid 60s, are among the few remaining who can do Kntadjait, or throat singing, which has few words and much sound.
Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings forcing them to say little but listen attentively.
Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those revivin
A. controlled by rich people
B. grasped by good storytellers
C. taken good care of
D. protected by kind people
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