I love e-mail.Evidently，so do most other journalists.E-mail use has tripled during the past five years among some journalists.I know because I am part of a research team that surveyed 360 journalists last year to determine how they use e-mail.Our survey results show that e-mail use among respondents expanded dramatically from only 18%in 1994 to 80%in 1999.Instead of sending about eight messages a day，each of those journalists was sending 30.

And these same journalists said they are using e-mail for everything from locating sources to conducting online interviews.Such evidence indicates that for many journalists e-mail has created a virtual world in which they can transcend time and space.A journalist in California，for example，taps out her questions at l：30 p.m.，and sends them to London，where it‘s 9：30 p.m……It is better than getting up at 3 a.m.to do a telephone interview with a scientist in Switzerland.

In today‘s wired world，reporters are discovering that people who won’t respond to phone calls，often will respond quickly to e-mails.A colleague and I are now in the process of conducting follow-up interviews with a selected group of journalists who participated in our 1999 survey.Those interviewed so far all agreed that e-mail is changing the way journalists work.As one reporter for a major Southwestern daily said，“Now you can send out half a dozen e-mails and usually most of them will be returned within the next day.It has opened up a better，faster way to communicate that didn’t exist before.It used to be that you could only communicate with people basically during working hours.But now you can send an e-mail in the middle of the night and get your answer in the morning.”

Other advantages of e-interviews：You don‘t have to transcribe a tape or decipher your notes.And when a source complains about a quote，all you have to do is send over a transcript of your e-mail message to verify its accuracy.

Although these journalists are crazy about the e-interview，they also admit it has its limitations.“You have to use judgment to decide when an e-mail interview is as good as a voice interview，”one said .And I agree，as long as we treat e-mail as one of many journalistic tools，we‘ll be fine.But，for most stories，you simply must drag yourself away from your keyboard.E-interviews are also good for closed-ended questions，such as：How many employees did your company lay off last year? But during an e-interview，you can’t see the pain on the face of the CEO who just fired 2，000 people.

1. E-mail use among some journalists has tripled during the past five years because____.

[A]it is more convenient and quicker

[B]it is particularly useful for Journalists

[C]it saves money for journalists in conducting international interviews

[D]journalists send out more messages than before

2. A“wired world”(the first sentence in the third paragraph)is one____.

[A]in which the dominant means of communication is the e-mail

[B]which is connected by various communication media

[C]in which telephone interview has replaced face-to-face interview

[D]in which the telephone is a dominant means of communication

3. Another advantage of e-mail over other kinds of communication is that____.

[A]it is more reliable and trustworthy

[B]it is more likely to be responded to

[C]it is more direct than face-to-face communication

[D]it irons out the embarrassment which may be provoked otherwise

4. One of the limitations of e-interview is that____.

[A]it is limited in time and space

[B]the interviewers send much useless information

[C]the interviewers have to dispense with body language

[D]the interviewers have to compare the e-mail message with their notes later

5. The passage is mainly concerned with____.

[A]the advantages of e-interviews over traditional interviews

[B]the limitations with the e-interview

[C]the changes brought to journalists by e-mail

[D]the importance of e-mail communication to journalists

1. [A] 第二段第二句指出，对许多记者来说，电子邮件开创了一个能使得他们超越时空的虚拟世界。

2. [B] wire此处作动词，意思是“用电线连接”，因此，这里应该不限于电话或电子邮件，而是指包括电话和电子邮件等在内的通讯手段。

3. [B] 参阅第三段第一句，该句是该段的主题句。 [D]的意思是：它可以消除(不使用它时)可能引起的尴尬局面。

4. [C] 意为：采访者看不到(被采访者的)身体语言。 参阅最后一段最后一句。

5. [C] 本文第二段第二句实际上表达了本文的主旨。本文第二、三、四段提到了电子邮件的诸多优点，最后一段提到了其局限性。就本文而言，所谓优点实际上谈的是电子邮件在哪些方面改变了记者的工作方式。