首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Charles Wang has been to e-mail hell, and returned to tell the tale. His journey there began innocently enough when, as chairman
Charles Wang has been to e-mail hell, and returned to tell the tale. His journey there began innocently enough when, as chairman
admin
2013-07-02
71
问题
Charles Wang has been to e-mail hell, and returned to tell the tale. His journey there began innocently enough when, as chairman of Computer Associates International, a software company, he first heard how quickly his employees had embraced their new electronic-mail system. They were sending messages to one another like crazy. "I said, ’ Wonderful,’ " recalls Wang. "And I also said, ’Let’s check into how people are using it. ’"
But instead of a pleasant e-mail culture, what had evolved was a behavioral nightmare. "It was a disaster," he says. "My managers were getting 200 to 300 e-mails a day each. People were so fond of it they weren’t talking to each other. They were hibernating, e-mailing people in the next room. They were abusing it. " In just a few years, Wang’s high-tech communications system had gone crazy.
To stop the insanity, Wang short-circuited the system, taking the astonishing step — considering what his $3.9 billion company does for a living — of banning all e-mails from 9: 30 a. m. to 12 noon and from 1: 30 p. m. to 4 p. m. These hours are now rigidly observed as a sort of electronic quiet time. Says Wang: "It worked wonderfully. People are walking the corridors again talking to other people. "
So much for the e-mail revolution, which is now enslaving all those employees it was supposed to free, creating communication problems so new that they cannot be found in the pages of any management textbook. E-mail has corrupted corporate cultures and created bosses who turn e-mail into a terror weapon to subdue underlings and undermine rivals. E-mail has wasted years of executive time and gigabytes(十亿字节)of computer memory looking for lost keys.
And the volume of traffic is still exploding. In 1994, for example, 776 billion e-mail messages moved through U. S. -based computer networks. As of 1997 that number is expected to more than triple, to 2. 6 trillion. By the year 2000, the number will nearly triple again, to 6. 6 trillion. Forty percent of the American workforce uses e-mail.
So why are people saying such bad things about these computer-borne text message? Almost everyone agrees that e-mail is a wonderful invention. It is a convenient, highly democratic, informal medium for conveying messages that conforms well to human needs. E-mail is perhaps the ideal means by which one can run a global project. "It is one of the greatest innovations of the last 20 years, " says Paul Argenti, a professor of management communications at Dartmouth’s Tuck School. But Argenti and others also say it is a medium whose function is confusing, in parts because the process is so easy and informal that people treat it as they do conversation. But informal as it may be, e-mail is writing and constitutes a permanent record. And because so much of human conversation is nonverbal, e-mail messages, especially critical or complex ones, can easily be misinterpreted.
What could be the probable figurative meaning of " hibernating"(Line 4, Para. 2)?
选项
A、It means people get sleepy more easily for no actual work to do.
B、It means people are not moving around and not talking to each other.
C、It means people have more time for sleep for their high efficiency.
D、It means people become indifferent to each other even in the same office.
答案
B
解析
语义理解题。hibernate的本意是“冬眠”,从上下文语境来看,这里是取其比喻意义,出现该词的前一句表示:人们非常着迷电子邮件,都不互相说话了。接着说即使是需要与隔壁的同事沟通,也是用电子邮件。所以可以判断选项[B]正确,“人们都不彼此走动,也不互相说话”。其他选项都不符合文中的语境。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Jcn7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Shehadabadcold.B、Shehadacaraccident.C、Shegothomebefore10o’clock.D、Shewasdelayed.D对话中女士提到,Ifthetrafficwas
Inmanycountries,authorityisseldom,ifever,questioned,eitherbecauseitishighly【B1】______,orbecauseitisfeared.So
Everykidmaycomplainaboutschoolnowandthen,butonlyaemailpercentageofkidsareunwillingtogotoschool.Iftherea
PresidentClintonlatertodayjoins【B1】______PresidentsFord,CarterandBushat"thepresident’ssummitforAmerica’sfuture"【
A、Moveoutofthecity.B、Plantmoretreesinthecity.C、Findawarmerplacetolivein.D、Improvetheenvironmentofthecity.
Alittlelearningisadangerousthing,______(而无知同样糟糕)。
LatinoyouthsneedbettereducationforArizonatotakefulladvantageofthepossibilitiestheirexplodingpopulationoffers.A
Newtechnologylinkstheworldasneverbefore.Ourplanethas【B1】_____.It’snowa"globalvillage"wherecountriesareonlyse
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayentitledALetterofApplication.Youshouldwriteatleast150
WhatismostremarkableaboutthebuildingoftheSwissReTowerisnotitsnameoritsshape,however,butitsenergy-efficienc
随机试题
马克思主义的理论品质是
其诊断为若上述处理半小时后,产妇出现持续性腹痛,拒按,烦躁不安,以下处理不恰当的是
直肠的全长应为
24岁初产妇,仅在乡卫生院做过2次产前检查,自述现妊娠38周,阵发腹痛2h来院分娩,检查血压120/80mmHg,胎心140,/min,四段触诊发现母体宫底部可触及胎头,拟诊为臀先露。关于臀先露的描述,下列哪项正确
基金募集失败,()应承担法定责任。
根据消费税的有关规定,下列纳税人自产自用的应税消费品不缴纳消费税的是()。
根据以下资料,回答下列问题2016年,某市全年接待游客总人数达2.003亿人次,同比增长4.68%。其中,接待国内游客1.98亿人次,同比增长4.52%;接待入境游客272.31万人次,同比增长18.32%。旅游总收入达2502.25亿元,同比增长22.
《尚书》
(北京航空航天大学2013年试题)Mostworthwhilecareersrequiresomekindofspecializedtraining.Ideally,therefore,thechoiceofan【C1】
Mycousinboughtausedhouse,thepriceof_________wasveryreasonable.
最新回复
(
0
)