In China phone talk is expensive. If you want to make it cheaper, make phone calls using the Internet, which can cost as little as 30% or even 5% of a traditional call.
But changing your DDD (domestic direct dial) and your IDD (international direct dial) calls for the net version, called voice over the internet protocol (互联网协议) or VoIP, requires you to choose between different types of technology, with different advantages.
If a telephone connection was a road, a regular phone call allows you and the person you are calling to share the road without anyone else. On this empty road, the connection is fast, efficient, and uninterrupted. But with VoIP technology, your voice is broken into millions of separated packets of information that share the road with all the billions of other bits of information on the Internet. When the packets reach the person you are calling, they are gathered to resemble your voice. Depending on which type of VoIP you are using, the
A. much more convenient
B. much cheaper
C. more dependable
D. more efficient
Whenever advertisers want you to stop thinking about the product and to start thinking about something bigger, better, or more attractive than the product, they use that very popular word "like". The word "like" is the advertiser’ s equivalent of the magician’ s use of misdirection. "Like" gets you to ignore the product and concentrate on the claim the advertiser is making about it. "For skin like peaches and cream" claims the ad for a skin cream. What is this ad really claiming It doesn’ t say this cream will give you peaches-and-cream skin. There is no verb in this claim, so it doesn’ t even mention using the product. How is skin ever like "peaches and cream" Remember, ads must be read exactly according to the dictionary definition of words. This ad is making absolutely no promise for this skin cream. If you think this cream will give you soft, smooth, and youthful-looking skin, you are the one who has
A. according to its dictionary definition
B. according to its contexts
C. imaginatively
D. impartially
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