Упр.84 Unit 4 ГДЗ Enjoy English 11 класс

Read the text and choose the sentence that best summarises its main idea.

• A. Advanced technologies play an important role in the modern world.
• B. Technologies have helped people survive in the past.
• C. New technologies have changed people’s 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 didn’t 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 today’s 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 didn’t even know about the fish-hook makes me worry that I probably don’t have any idea about the genius behind technology.

I have turned on lamps countless times without ever really appreciating Thomas Edison’s 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 technology, because everything around me seems to be a part of some kind of technology. It could be anything from the invention of the fish-hook to the engineering of cloning sheep. Technology is a part of our lives as humans and it inevitably affects how we live.