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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 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 devel-oped 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 dis-cussion 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 samelength 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. Then
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.      
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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 l0 words)        
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4. For what purpose does the author mention his American friend in Paragraph l? (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 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.用簡短的話回復冗長的電子郵件完全不失禮節。／用簡短的話回復馬拉松式的電子郵件也是禮貌的。