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Excite’s Universal Inbox: A Mixed Bag If information is coming at you from mo many directions, Excite @ Home’s Excite Inbox

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问题       Excite’s Universal Inbox: A Mixed Bag
     If information is coming at you from mo many directions, Excite @ Home’s Excite Inbox promises a solution. This Web site gives you one Inbox for e-mail, voice mail, and faxes, and, perhaps best of all, you get it all for free. It’s not a particularly good inbox.
     The service is pretty much your standard Web-based e-mail system, not much different from Hotmail or any other, you can visit it from any Web-enabled computer. It supports attachments, displays formatted messages properly, and can read messages from your standard POP e-mail accounts in addition to any other account you set up with Excite. And, just like the other e-mail services on the Web, it’s much slower than non-Web-based e-mail. You do get one unique feature: you can personalize the Excite Inbox with your choice of nine unread-mail icons and 15 color schemes, including Lavender, Techno, and Mint Julep. It’s a nice feature, but not an earth-shattering one.
     For voice mail, then Excite Inbox offers great conveniences for you and annoying hassles for your callers. If your friends call when you’re not at home, they must hang up and call another number (at least it’s toll-free). Then, they must dial or say a ten-digit extension (there are ten billion ten-digit numbers; how many subscribers does Excite hope to get?). They have to wait through a short commercial, then leave their message. And they’d better be brief, because no message can exceed 90 seconds.
    Things can get worse for anyone sending you a fax. They must dial the toll-free number and then the extension, wait through file commercial, and finally press the fax machine’s Start button on cue. While only a minor annoyance for anyone standing over a fax machine, this can be a major challenge for some poor soul sending you a fax from a computer. On the other hand, should anyone leave you a message or send you a fax, it is conveniently listed in your inbox alongside your e-mail messages. Listening to messages and viewing faxes are both simple and easy. You cannot currently send faxes from the Excite Inbox, but Excite @ Home is working in this feature for a future version.
     The service offers some nice ways to stay connected—you can synchronize your inbox data with Microsoft Outlook or Palm Desktop, and if you have a Palm VII, you’ll get wireless access to your messages. If you need free voicemail, the Excite Inbox could be worthwhile. If you want to receive faxes in your e-mail, Excite Inbox is just one choice of many.
The purpose of the author to write this article probably is______.
选项 A、to criticize the inconvenience brought with by Excite Inbox.
B、to monopolize the production and sale of Microsoft outlook or Palm Desktop.
C、to introduce the services offered by Excite Home’s Excite Inbox.
D、all of the above.
答案C
解析 本题考查主旨大意。不难看出，这篇文章是对Excite网站推出的收件箱的一个较为客观的介绍，文章以通俗易懂的文字简单介绍了该邮箱的性能、服务、特色、缺点等方面，所以选C 比较合适。
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