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Directions: In your essay, youshould 1) describe the drawing briefly, 2) explain its intended maening, and then 3) give your comments. As is subtly reviewed in the portrayal, a great many people are surfing online. Separated by the stretching spider web, these cyber citizens attempt to communicate with each other. Undoubtedly, the Internet exerts such a profound effect on our life, that it revolutionizes the way of poeples living and thinking. The exaggerative and impressive drawing has symbolically reflected the duality of the relationship between man and the Internet. The spider web epitomizes the Internet which is the most efficient contemporary media of interpersonnal communication. People isolated from each other represent those net citizens who have lost the skill of face-to-face contact and get alienated from each other. The fact that peopel feel reluctant to contact others directly indicates that to some extent some people are too much addicted to the Internet to maintain a regular and wholesome lifestyle. Hence, it is necessary for us to use the Internet in a reasonable way and restrain from overindulgence. For one thing, in addition to providing us many of the facilities and services we now must travle to obtain, with the Internet, the computer will even let us communicated directly with people all over the world and with information sources worldwide. For another, as nearly all activities could be conducted in the comfort of our own homes or offices, we could all become hermit-like, never feeling any need to leave the computer. Accordingly, the challenge of the Internet means we should consider how we can use it, so that it wont control us. | 
