The e-mail, which is also called email , stands for "electronic(电子)mail".You can send messages in only a few seconds by e-mail.
On the Internet there are many powerful computers called "servers(服务器)”to help people send and receive emails.The sending and receiving servers are just like post offices.If you want to use the email service, you have to open at least an email account called a "mailbox" ,just like we set up a mailbox in a post office.Some mailboxes are provided free of charge by ISPs, which you can get when you open an Internet account.Most widely used mailboxes are provided free by the ISPs, and anyone can apply for(申请)one even if he had no ISP account.
How to apply for a free mailbox?First you have to connect to the Internet and go to the homepage(主页)of the ICP providing free mailboxes.Then you'll find an icon
(符号)showing "apply for a free mailbox".Click(点击)the icon, an agreement about the rules for using the free mailbox will appear.If you want to go on, click the icon "I agree".Then you have to fill in a form about your basic personal data, and the name and PIN of the mailbox.The PIN is the key to the mailbox.After finishing these, you'll get a mailbox like this:your-name @mail server(for example:tvguide @ mail.cctv.com.cn."tvguide" is the name of the mail-box and "mail.cctv.com.cn" is the name of the mail-server.).The mailbox is separated into two parts by a separator "@", which is read as "at".The former part is the name of the mailbox.The latter is the domain name of the mail server.All mails to you will be received by the server and put into your mailbox.You can read this mail on any computer in the world as you have the name and PIN of the mailbox.
(1)
If you want to send or receive an email, you should first ________.
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A.
write a letter to the ISPs
B.
fill in a form
C.
apply for a mailbox
D.
go to the post office
(2)
Here is an email address "ecpjyb @ ecp.com.cn".What's the name of the mailbox?________
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A.
The name is ecp.
B.
The name is ecp.com.cn.
C.
The name is com.cn.
D.
The name is ecpjyb.
(3)
The writer mainly wants to tell us how to ________ in these passage?
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A.
send a letter by email
B.
set up a free email-box
C.
find out one's email address
D.
read the email on any computer in the world
(4)
Which of the following is TRUE?________
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A.
People can send messages within several seconds by email.
B.
If you want to send an email, you have to go to the post office first.
C.
You can also receive an email without using a mailbox.
D.
If you have no money, you can't apply for a mailbox.