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Lines 2-3 ¡§ the Internet has been destroying our ability to communicate effectively¡¨

To destroy the ability to communicate means that people lose the ability to communicate.

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Lines 5-6 ¡§ Never before has humanity been able to distribute content so quickly using a fairly universal system.¡¨

¡§To distribute content so quickly ¡¨ implies that the information transfer swifter.

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Lines 20-22 ¡§ Serve to allow the common sharing and exchange of information in order to bring about a desired action

¡§ In order to¡¨ refers to the ultimate goal, and a ¡§desired action¡¨ means something expected to  happen.

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Lines 24-27 On the basis of these definitions, the Internet is not living up to the task. While users of the Internet are still speaking the same language and viewing identical material, only the first step in the communication process is being accomplished.

¡§Only the first step in the communication process is being accomplished.¡¨ means that the communication is achieved.

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Lines 32-34,  "Email, the most commonly used Internet application, is a wonderful tool, allowing cheap, easy distribution of information.?

The sentence shows  the application refers to email. Moreover, it is email that makes the user form lazy habits to —iignore all grammatical, spelling and etiquette rules when sending message.

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Lines 32-34: Email, the most commonly used Internet application, is a wonderful tool, allowing cheap, easy distribution of information.

The word "heap' suggests the meaning of inexpensive. The phrase "any distribution of information" suggests simplicity of the process.

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Lines 40-5, " For example, job applicants begin to ignore standard resume and letter-writing ‘r"rules" when soliciting a job via email. As communication, the writing style used in email needs to be chosen according to the receiver.

The relationship between participants refers to the relationship of the email user and the receivers. The job applicant is the example of email user. They ignore the standard for resume and letters. The writer, at the end of the paragraph mentions that the user have to choose writing style based on the receiver but not to ignore who the receiver is.

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Lines51-55: "Both society and culture are created by communication. The writer states that communication creates both society and culture. By disregarding the ways in which we create, distribute and receive messages, we are destined for a world where no one understands anything."

The writer is  pessimistic over  lack of communication in the world .  No one understand anything because we do not pay attention to the way in which we distribute and receive messages.

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Lines 59-62 "this global village is no more than a dream in the computer age. In a village, everyone finds a way to communicate with each other in order to survive, in order to live.

This explains that the world can have a better communication with the help of the copmputer via the Internet

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Lines66-67 "Nothing could be less like the social and supportive atmosphere of a true village".

We can know the people in the village will support each other via the Internet to communicate with one another.

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Line 70"Millions upon millions of bytes sent over the information superhighway would never be spoken in person or mailed in a traditional letter. A user reads an email or visits a website, grows impassioned at the content, and quickly jots off a response.

This explains that the people sent the message very quickly such as a “ssuperhighway described by the writer.

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Lines78-81 "How easy, albeit cowardly, it has become to send a critical email liberally filled with coarse expressions when your return address is nothing more accessible than coolguy@hotmail.com

"critical " "coarse expressions" shows "socrn".  This shows the attitude of the writer towards this email address.

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Paragraph 7, lines 73-75 ,  "A user reads an email or visits a website, grows impassioned at the content, and quickly jots off a response".

"Jot off" ? means making quick, usually. short, written note of something. That means information may ignore.

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Line 88, The Internet, named for its utopian goal of reciprocal, mutual togetherness, should be properly renamed the ‘E"Extranet" for its capacity for separation, exclusion and isolation.

"Utopian" means having or aiming at  the perfection of Utopia but impossible to achieve; idealistic.

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Paragraph 8, lines 93-99. With interactivity targeting an individual’s attention, especially with the personalization features now found on many sites, websites can be easily thought of as building a one-to-one relationship. However, a website’s ultimate target remains one-to-many, much the same as television and radio.

One-to-many means mass transmission.

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Paragraph 9, lines 106-109. A bit of behavior modification and consideration can help the Internet realize its lofty goal and quite possibly lend a hand in building that global village.

It still has a change to build a well-developed communication- global village.

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