寒假第八讲 完形填空+阅读理解 讲义-2023-2024学年上海市高一上学期英语上外版（2020)

高一英语·秋季 Lesson 8 Intensive Reading: Social service and interpersonal communication Intensive reading Social service and interpersonal communication Cloze 难度：★★★★☆ 【语篇类型】议论文 【主题群】社会服务与人际沟通 【来源】The Guardian Why do we still have email? Email is one of the internet's oldest apps-from the days before we used the word “app” even - and despite its drawbacks, most of us still use it every day. Typically, the apps we download in 2020 have been _____1_____ for mere days or months. We are used to the pang of regret when really useful software suddenly winks out of existence. How has email remained a(n) _____2_____ for nearly 50 years? Yes, ①it is helpful that email is based on a(n) _____3_____ communications medium that stretches back to some of the first examples of written language. But that isn't the full story. First, email managed to survive massive upheavals① in the way we use computers. In the early 1970s, when email was born, it was almost _____4_____ a tool for researchers, university students and engineers. You would send, receive and store your email on a work computer. With the _____5______ of personal computers in the 1980s and 90s, email became something you kept on your own private machines or disks - almost like storing old letters in a shoebox. Now, we have come full circle. Most of us store our personal mail in the cloud, which is ______6_____ like storing it on somebody else's work computer. It is extremely rare to see apps make the leap from one platform to another like email did. They tend to _____7_____ in the journey from web to mobile, or from one game system to another. As well as _____8_____ dramatic tech changes, email dealt with another major hurdle②: spam (垃圾邮件). ②In the 1990s and early 2000s, people's inboxes _____9_____ so much junk that it was impossible to find the stuff you wanted. You had to install another program - a spam filter - just to use your email program. ③But in the age of cloud mail, anti-spam systems have become so good tha