中国大学MOOC: If someone calls you , you pick it up and the conversation begins.

E-mail is a conversation that does not require an_____________ response (like a telephone). A: immediate B: immediately C: immediacy D: immediateness

1) One of the advantages of e-mail is that you can deal with messages _________________. 2) The annoyance of e-mail is that the ____________ to your e-mail may come in five days because e-mail is not an ________________________. 3) If you ____________ a meeting an hour later with e-mail, the chance that the participants will read the message will be pretty ____________. 4) Too many e-mail users assume that ____________ someone receives an e-mail, the person will ____________ it. 5) Remember, e-mail is not designed for immediate response; it’s designed for ____________. 6) The features of some e-mail systems can ____________ you when a person has received your e-mail and may also ____________ you when the person has read it. 7) Since there are no facial and voice ____________ to help e-mail, users have come up with something called “____________”.

Remember, e-mail is not designed for _________ response (that’s why you have a telephone), it’s designed for convenience.

When someone is having a conversation with you and your phone rings, you can pick up the phone and politely tell the caller to call you later.