Passage 1
Do you send and receive more phones calls or e-mail? If your answer is e-mail, or you wish it were, then a new breed of telecommunications devices called an e-mail phone or Internet phone may soon find its way into your kitchen or living room. Essentially, an e-mail phone, or e-phone for short, is the merger of telephone and computer. With most of these new screen phones, that means being able to read and reply to electronic mail directly from the phone, without starting up (or even owning) a PC. With some, it also means being able to search through the Web to make vacation plans or research homework assignments though at slow speeds and on a rather small screen. And you can still make phone calls, too.
No computer experience is required to use an e-phone. Most let you sign up with Internet service provider (ISP), which typically charges about ＄20 per month. Once you're past this tedious work and enter the account information into the phone, you can check your e-mail from either your computer or phone.
To assess your e-mail account from one of these phones, you typically have to select e-mail service from a menu. Phones with touch screens have an icon (图标) for that on the opening screen. For other phones, you press one of the buttons lining the bottom or sides of the display, much as with an ATM machine. The phone then calls your ISP. When the ISP picks up, the phone automatically transfers your account name and password. Once accepted, the ISP will start sending the phone your messages. By touching the item you want to read or hitting a button next to it, the message will be displayed. Once you've read it, you can reply to the message, move onto the next one, or, with most phones, delete the message from your account. You can check your e-mail manually, but most e-phones can also be set to check several times a day automatically. In automatic mode, the phone flashes to tell you mail is waiting. If you happen to be using the phone when it is scheduled to check for e-mail, the phone will automatically try again when the line is free.
One serious drawback to e-mail by phone is that it cannot receive (or send) attached files, whether they contain documents or graphics. Some phones will attempt to display si
mple text files as part of the message, but other types of files will appear as gibberish（乱码）, or not at all. If you share the e-mail account with a PC and don't delete the message, however, you can usually retrieve the message and file on your computer.
57. An e-mail phone is an improved device of telecommunication in that _________.
A) it can record a message in the form of e-mails
B) it can be used to receive and send e-mails
C) it can be connected with computers
D) it can be used to visit websites
58. Compared with a traditional telephone, an e-mail phone probably_________.
A) has a colored screen
B) has a larger size
C) has similar key arrangement
D) does not have a receiver
59. When an e-mail phone is being used to make phone calls, it_________.
A) cannot receive new messages
e通话B) send out a signal of new messages
C) cannot display e-mail messages
D) automatically checks new messages
60. One fundamental flaw of e-mail phones is that people cannot use it to_________.
A) receive or send e-mails with attached files
B) receive attached files with documents
C) read attached files with graphics
D) read only messages in the form of simple text
61. It can be inferred from the passage that e-mails phones are designed to_________.
A) make transmission of e-mail messages faster
B) make communication through e-mails cheaper
C) make communication through e-mails easier
D) make communication through e-mails more popular
文章大意
文章介绍了一种新的电信装置--电话。利用电话，人们可以在不启动电脑的情况下也可以收发，甚至可以浏览网页。利用电话的触摸屏或按钮登录账号后，人们便可以查收、浏览、回复、删除邮件，也可以启动电话自动查收邮件功能。该装置的缺点是不能收发附件，而且未删除的邮件在电脑中将被重新查收。
试题解析
57. 选B）。细节题。第一段第四句解释了e-mail phone的功能，即用电话代替电脑处理，B）与之相符。排除干扰A）为无关选项，可直接排除；第一段第四句指出，有了e-mail phone，即使不开电脑，也可以处理，故排除C）；第一段第五句说明不是所有的e-mail phone都可以浏览网页，故排除D）。 58. 选B）。推断题。第三段描述了e-mail phone的使用方法，可以得知e-mail phone必须具备可以显示邮件信息的显示器以及用于登录账号及回复邮件所需的键盘，可以推知e-mail phone肯定比普通电话体积大，B）与之相符。排除干扰显示不一定需要彩屏，故排除A）；e-mail phone除了普通电话的数字键，肯定需要字母键以及诸多功能键才
能执行其功能，故排除C）；第一段最后一句指出e-mail phone保留普通电话的通话功能，因此肯定带听筒，故排除D）。
59. 选A)。推断题。根据题干定位到原文第三段最后一句。如果e-mail phone在查收时占线，则会等通话结束后再自动查收，可以推知通话过程中不能接收新邮件，A）与之相符。排除干扰第三段第十句说明只要有未读邮件，电话的指示灯就会不断闪烁，故排除B）；不能接收新邮件不说明不能查看已接收的邮件，故排除C）；D）与第三段最后一句不符。
60. 选D）。细节题。根据题干one fundamental flaw定位到原文第四段第一句和第二句。该段第二句说明e-mail phone将来只可以显示简单文本的附件内容，这说明现在还不能显示简单文本的附件内容，D）与之相符。排除干扰该段第一句指出e-mail phone 不能接收附件，与A）中"不能接受带附件的邮件"不一致，故排除A）；第一句指出，无论附件是文档文件还是图表文件都不能被接收或显示，B）和C）只是分别表述了其部分的意思，故排除。
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