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The Rivalry of E-mail Industry It looks like a great time for E-mail but a lousy time for E-mail applications. Web-based mai
The Rivalry of E-mail Industry It looks like a great time for E-mail but a lousy time for E-mail applications. Web-based mai
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2013-07-08
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The Rivalry of E-mail Industry
It looks like a great time for E-mail but a lousy time for E-mail applications. Web-based mail has been gaining ground for years, especially since Google revived the concept by launching Gmail five years ago.
These days, many home users never bother to download their E-mail, and the only threat Web mail Sites face comes from other sites: the closed confines of social networks. The most popular among them, Facebook, just gained its 200 millionth member, far more than any one Web-mail service.
In its favor, Web mail offers a simpler setup: You need to know only a user name and a password, without any mysterious mail-server addresses. Once your account is active, you can use it from any Web-connected computer, Web-based mail systems also make it easy to keep a permanent address regardless of your Internet provider. Doing the same with desktop E-mail usually requires paying extra money for a domain name and spending extra time on mail settings.
By contrast, desktop mail programs let you read and compose mail-without an Internet connection and don’t wrap advertisements around your mail. But their most important advantage is their separation of software and service. Because you can use more than one program with one mail service, you can choose an application with the features and interface you like. And because you can also use one mail program with more than one mail service, desktop applications make your mail itself portable; you can back up your messages and take them with you after closing an account.
If desktop mail software programmers had kept pace with Web mail developers, the two camps could have a fairly even fight.
Unfortunately, mail software developers can’t make Internet providers upgrade their mail services, and Interact providers can’t make mail-software developers modify their efforts. Unless that situation somehow changes, Web mail will continue to face few challenges outside of the social networks.
What does the phase "a lousy time" (Lines 1 ~2, Para. 1) mean in the passage?
选项
A、An exciting time.
B、A proper time.
C、A bad time.
D、A fearful time.
答案
C
解析
语义理解题。由题干中的a lousy time定位到第一段第一句。该句意思为:这是一个电子邮件的时代,但好像不是电子邮件软件的好日子。如果认识lousy这个词,自然知道它的意思是“糟糕的”,与[C]的意思一致。即使不认识这个词,从句中but一词也可知but前后两部分的意思对立,前面的词为great,后面就应该是great的反义词。[A]“激动人心的时期”、[B]“合适的时期”和[D]“令人恐惧的时刻”均与之不符,故排除。
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考研英语一
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