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WWW, a Wide and Wonderful World
Most large companies already provide Internet connections to the desktop
and their availability in small and medium sized companies is expanding rapidly.
Besides the items noted above, we can expect to see distributed learning through
correspondence courses, via e-mail (and soon Internet phone and later
conferencing) where teacher feedback comes in minutes or hours without the need
for costly faxes and can therefore be offered much more widely. As secure
financial transactions become more widely and cheaply available this kind of
service will also become a more practical reality for individual use
too. Right now it is possible to arrange machine translation of
documents for some languages at low cost over the Net and the quality, accuracy
and number of languages is improving all the time. We can expect that these
services will expand rapidly and continue to be of much higher quality than is
possible with desktop PC software translation programs. Combined with the use of
e-mail checking by bi-lingual expert translators these machine translations can
greatly expedite translation and therefore reduce costs. As the software
improves, costs will plummet quickly since the need for human intervention and
its associated costs will become necessary only for material which is to be
published as the quality of machine translation begins to match or be better
than that which is available from all but the very best human
translators. Use the Internet yourself, encourage friends to do
likewise and make it available for your staff. The Net is a global equalizer
which will just get better and better. Right now is the time to begin. Language
learning resources are finally available at reasonable cost, so couple your
learning program to the Net and get human benefits from the technology on your
desktop. It’s a wide and wonderful world. Which of the following statements do you think the author has implied
A．It is compulsory to couple one’s learning program to the Internet. B．The Internet presupposes the idea of equality all over the world. C．The Internet is a wonderful, beneficial human technical invention. D．The Internet provides much more accurate and precise translation.