Упр.84 Unit 4 ГДЗ Enjoy English 11 класс
84 Read the text and choose the sentence that best summarises its main idea.A Advanced technologies play an important role in the modern world.В Technologies have helped people survive in the past.С New technologies have changed peopletasks lifestyles.Our lives and everyday routines are constantly changing in the 21st century.
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84 Read the text and choose the sentence that best summarises its main idea.
A Advanced technologies play an important role in the modern world.
В Technologies have helped people survive in the past.
С New technologies have changed peopletasks lifestyles.
Our lives and everyday routines are constantly changing in the 21st century. Every day something new is invented to make life supposedly easier. What I find strange, though, is that as these things enter our lives, they seem to create new problems that we didntaskt have before. People are finding solutions to problems that barely exist.
For example, do I really need that MP3 player when I could just burn a CD? Or do I even need that CD burner when I could just go out and buy the CD in a shop? Or do I really need that CD when I could read a book instead? This progression — or one could say regression — could go on forever. For every invention, a new and better one seems to always follow.
The more I look at todaytasks world and technology, the more I think about its impact on my life. Without even realising it, my lifestyle has been affected daily by technology and its never-ending advances. While I have spent days writing endless e-mails and watching DVDs, I almost never stop to think about the technology behind these devices.
Last year I learned in history that the biggest advance of the Mesolithic Age was the fish-hook. Yes, the fish-hook — that little object that attaches to a fishing line and is cast out, as the person sits for hours and hours, waiting to catch a fish that will probably require all of their strength to haul from the water.
I found it ironic that an advance as enormous as the fish-hook that historically meant the survival of a community could later become just a pleasurable pastime to some. I wonder if fishermen ever think about the skill it took to create the fish-hook, or realise that it was the most important invention of a whole age.
The fact that I didntaskt even know about the fish-hook makes me worry that I probably dontaskt have any idea about the genius behind technology. I have turned on lamps countless times without ever really appreciating Thomas Edisontasks invention. And talking on the telephone never reminds me to thank Alexander Graham Bell for this miracle of communication.
I do not really know how to define techno ogy, because everything around me seems be a part of some kind of technology. It col : be anything from the invention of the fish-hc to the engineering of cloning sheep. Technoloc is a part of our lives as humans and it inevitat affects how we live.