Question

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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 could ensure the sender rang him up. If the sender wasn't important enough to
have his private number, 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 any
address you don't recognize or feel confident about.
     Secondly, e-mails 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 it the closed in meaning to the following one? The possible existence of
annoyance results from our inability to sort out e-mails.

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

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

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4. For what purpose does the author mention his American friend in Paragraph 1? (within 10 words)

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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.

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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 some ways to deal with e-mails. Handling e-mails
    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-mails 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。
答案不唯一