13.互聯網音樂產業
段落大意：互聯網促成了音樂產業的全球化。
The music industry is in a time of growth at this very moment. Its growth has been increasing rapidly across many geographical boundaries and has been established through information technology （信息技術）, especially the Internet. The music industry has not only been affected by globalisation （全球化） as an economic institution, but has also become a worldwide-globalised commodity （商品）. Though its product is not a necessity, it is affected by large economic factors and has become a large market. Moreover, the music market has globalising tendencies for the consumers. People listen to music in cars, workplaces, shopping centres and restaurants. Runners listen to music as they exercise. Patients listen to music while sitting on the dentist chair. Everybody listens to music everywhere at anytime. Whenever you go on line and among links on Travel, Stock Quotes （股票報價）, Sports or Entertainment, you will certainly find a link on Music.
14.互聯網的多麵性
段落大意：互聯網既是極其有用的研究、商業、教育工具，但也有許多不健康的、非法的內容。
No one will deny that the Internet is the most useful tool for research, business, and education. However, the Internet is a subject of a topic as controversial as the legalities of abortion or homosexual （同性戀） rights. Many erotic （色情的）, illegal, and unhealthy materials are available on the Internet such as pornography （色情作品） and pirated （盜版的） software. On the other hand, many educational tools are on-line as well. This creates an urgent need for the establishment of ethics in the Internet realm. The Internet is a worldwide computer network of home, corporate, and government computers. It is necessary to understand that the Internet is not just composed of web pages, but of files, e-mails, newsgroups, internal computer networks, personal computers, etc. The media that provide the majority of the controversial content are most often here.
15.互聯網對心理狀態的消極影響
段落大意：互聯網對人們的社會交際能力有著負麵的影響，一項研究顯示，人們上網時間越多，與身邊親朋好友交流的時間就越少，就越容易造成心理不健康。
While our culture holds the Internet as a technological wonder, one thing that we can’t neglect is that Internet also has a negative effect on individuals and their social skills. A study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University concluded that the use of Internet led to small but statistically significant increases in misery and loneliness and a decline in overall psychological well-being （American Psychological Association, 1998）. The Home-Net project studied a sample of 169.people in Pittsburgh during their first year or two online. Data showed that as people in this sample used the Internet more, they were found to have contact with fewer friends. They also spent less time talking with their families, while experiencing more daily stress and feeling more lonely and depressed. These results occurred even though interpersonal communication was their most important reason for using the Internet.
16.互聯網對青少年交際能力的消極影響
段落大意：互聯網對青少年的社會交際能力有著嚴重的負麵作用。
According to the Home-Net study, teenagers are much heavier （更過度的） Internet users than their parents. While adults tend to use the Internet as part of their jobs and to get employment-related information, teenagers are more likely to use the Internet to play games, to listen to music, and to make acquaintance with （結識） new people. This particular appeal （吸引力） has caused further concern among educators such as Michael A. Weinstein, professor of Political Science at Purdue University. He believes Internet users will “lose the savvy （悟性） and skills and patience to conduct social relations in the corporeal （物質的） world,”and that the Internet will intensify the negative effect that television has already had on our social skills. Taking his view then, it is assumed that we are encouraging our children to become social nitwits （白癡）!
17.科技發展的安全性
段落大意：有些人強烈反對科技的發展，認為科技發展是一種滅絕。但關於發展的安全性的討論是不會有結果的，在發展中不存在絕對的安全。
Throughout history, some have violently opposed scientific developments. For example, Guardian columnist Jeremy Rifkin described biotechnology as “a form of annihilation （滅絕） every bit as deadly as nuclear holocaust （ 核武器大屠殺）, and even more profound.”This dispute between science and anti-science, progress and reaction, the materialist （唯物主義者） and idealist （唯心主義者） philosophies, can never be resolved. It is a fundamental philosophic divide （分歧） that cannot be bridged. One or the other must prevail. The argument that we must wait for a consensus （共識） to emerge is conservative, for this would mean waiting forever. No amount of additional debate can ever win round the opposition to progress, because that opposition is based on faith-based dogma （教條）; it is impervious （無動於衷的） to evidence and reason. Calls for stop of development are prevarication （支吾，搪塞）. Similarly, the search for absolute safety, like all searches for absolutes, is a delusion （幻想）, which makes the precautionary （預防的） principle another reason for stasis （停滯，停止）.