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221 IV . Read the article attentively and define its main ideas . V . Divide the text into several logical parts and headline them . VI . Make up the abstract of the text , using the given phrases and expressions . Текст 2. Surfing the Net What is more impressive than the pyramids, more beautiful than Michelangelo's David and more important to mankind than the won- drous inventions of the Industrial Revolution? To the converted, there can be only one answer: the Internet that undisciplined radical elec- tronic communications network that is shaping our universe. Multime- dia, the electronic publishing revolution, is entering every area of our lives – college, work and home. This new digital technology combines texts, video, sound and graphics to produce interactive language learn- ing, football, music, movies, cookery and anything else you might be interested in. The industrial age has matured into the information age; wherein the means to access, manipulate, and use information has become cru- cial to success and power. The electronic superhighway provides an entry to libraries, research institutions, databases, art galleries, census bureaus, etc. For those of us interested in intercultural communications Cyberspace is a universal community, with instant access not only to information anywhere, but also to friends old and new around the globe. The Internet is an amorphous global network of thousands of linked computers that pass information back and forth. While the Inter- net has no government, no owners, no time, no place, no country, it definitely has a culture, which frequently approaches anarchy; and it has a language, which is more or less English. People who interact in an Internet environment know how addresses are formed, how to use e-mail, ftp, Usenet News, Telnet, and other software tools.