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An American friend of mine who was high up in a big corporation had worked out a way of handling a flood of e-mails before most of us had even heard of the concept. If any information he was sent was vital enough, his lack of response would ensure the sender rang him up, if the sender wasn’t important enough to have his private numbers, the communication couldn’t be that important, my friend is now even more senior in the same company so the strategy must work.

Almost every week now, there seems to be a report suggesting that we are all being driven crazy by the bother of e-mail. If this is the case, it’s only because we haven’t developed an appropriate discrimination in dealing with it.

________. Firstly, you junk anything with an exclamation mark or a string of capital letters, or from my address, you don’t recognize on feel confident about.

Secondly, e-mail don’t all have to be answered. Because e-mailing is so easy, there’s a tendency for correspondence to carry on for ever, but it is permissible to stop an endless discussion or to accept a point of information sent by a colleague without acknowledging it.

Thirdly, a reply e-mail doesn’t have to be the same length as the original. We all have e-mail pals who send long, chatty e-mails, which are nice to receive, but who then expect an equally long reply. The charm of e-mail can consist in the simple, incomplete sentence, totally, regardless of the format of the letter sent by post. You are perfectly within the bounds of politeness in responding to a marathon e-mail with a brief reply.

1．Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

The possible existence of annoyance results from our inability to sort out e-mails

2．Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with a proper sentence (within 10 words)

3．What advice is given in the last paragraph? (within 10 words)

4．For what purpose does the author mention his American friend in Paragraph 1?(within10 words)

5．Translate the underline in the last paragraph into Chinese.

Answer 1

1. If this is the case, it’s only because we haven’t developed an appropriate discrimination in dealing with it.

2. E-mail(s) can be handled in the following ways.

Here are the ways to deal with e-mail(s).

   Handling e-mail(s) is an art.

3. You may reply to a long e-mail briefly.

   You don’t have to write a long reply e-mail.

4. To show a way of handling e-mail(s)with an example.

   To introduce the topic of the text.

5. 用简短的话回复冗长的电子邮件完全不失礼节。

  用简短的话回复马拉松式的电子邮件也是礼貌的。