BEC商务英语中级考试真题分享-英语练习

　　小编给大家带来BEC商务英语中级考试真题(25)，希望对大家有所帮助。 　　The Myth of the Paperless Office 　　0 The concept of a paperless office grew with the advance of technology. It was 　　00 widely been claimed that as email became commonplace, people would stop 　　34 writing memos, keeping bulky files and bringing piles of paper to the meetings. 　　35 But the reality has in fact been quite the reverse, and paper, having already 　　36 survived five thousand years of technological change, and has proved remarkably 　　37 resilient. Worldwide, the amount of paper used for each year continues to 　　38 rise up, although statistics now show a slight reduction in the amount 　　39 it consumed in the UK. So, has technology failed in its aim to end the use of

　　40 paper? Max Bray, a business lecturer, thinks office workers still distrust computers. 　　41 ‘Technology is unreliable in most of people's eyes,’ he says. 'If you are sent an 　　42 important email, you are likely to print it, because there is always the 　　43 fear that it might have get deleted.’ In contrast, Paul Blunt, a marketing 　　44 manager for desktop products, who says there has been significant progress in 　　45 automating a wide range of tasks, even though the transition between has been more of an evolution than a revolution.