Home phones still going strong
Both scientific and sociological research 1............... indicate that, although the Internet has 2 ............ the way people work, at a more personal level the more old-fashioned ways of communication are not being 3 ................ by the new nechnologies. 4 ................ to statistics, a person who uses the Net at home to send and receive e-mails talks on the phone for 19 minutes on Sunday – a mere one and a half minutes less than someone who does not use the Internet 5 ............ .Keele University’s Psycology Professor Tim Baxter says it’s all to do with how 6 .............. the Internet is, as opposed to the much greater 7 ............... of the human voice to convey a person’s emotions. “Only the greatest writers can actually put their feelings on paper” he says, “and when people talk to friends or 8 ............... they want them to know how they feel”. Things are very different at the workplace. It is estimated that corporate telephone usage in the UK has fallen 9 ............... (by more than 40%) since 1995, indicating that tha Internet is seen as a more 10 ............ way to communicate with colleagues.

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2 FORM
3 THREAT
4 ACCORD
5 DOMESTIC
6 PERSON
7 ABLE
8 RELATE
9 DRAMA
10 RELY

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