3.2. Comprehension tasks 3.2.1. Answer the questions to the text 1.
With what purpose was Breedlove and Associates founded?
2.
What is the reason for an office to go paperless?
3.
How is information exchange done in paperless office?
4.
How can paperless office affect the environment?
5.
Rolling out an online service, how can it help the clients?
6.
What changes are coming soon in the Internal Revenue Service?
7.
Who constitutes the main part of the Internal Revenue Service and Breedlove& Associates client base?
8.
Does the company expect difficulties for the clients in turning the paperwork electronic?
9.
What does the author imply by saying "Information thus appears to be becoming paperless roughly as
transport has become horseless."?
10.
Why do new generations of office workers like digital information?
11.
Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?
12.
What is the future of paper?
3.2.2. Match the following statements as True or False: 1.
The reason to relieve the burden of paperwork and turn it electronic was to reduce
clutter it creates and
speed up the flow of information. Is it true?
2.
The clients and staff are unwilling to catch up the opportunities
paperless office provides. Is it true?
3.
Digitizing information will inevitably entail the extinction of printed materials. Is it true?
4.
Families who want to use child care services have lots of paper to fill out. Is it true?
5.
The reason to relieve the burden of paperwork and turn it electronic was to reduce clutter it creates and
speed up the flow of information. Is it true?
6.
The clients and staff are unwilling to catch up the opportunities paperless office provides. Is it true?
7.
The reason for an office to go paperless is to eliminate the unnecessary paper use since the majority of
clients and office workers are good with technology. Is it true?
8.
Digitizing information will inevitably entail the extinction of printed materials. Is it true?
9.
New generations of office workers are used to having online notes and syllabuses. Is it true?
10.
Nowadays information can be shared easily even through the ocean. Is it true?
11.
The only disadvantage about the digital information is the difficulty to work with it. Is it true?
12.
One of the motivations for an office to go paperless is to protect the environment. Is it true?
13.
Older generation feels more comfortable with the printed materials. Is it true?
14.
Information on paper is more protected and there is little possibility to lose it. Is it true?
15.
Paperless office allows you to spend less time looking for papers lost in the shuffle. Is it true?
4. Discussion 1.
Digital era made
paperless office a reality but we shouldn't be totally dependent on computers to get work
done because some information still requires physical presence at our sight.
2.
Mass digitization will mean the end of some jobs, for example a postman, and many companies that supply
office goods.
3.
Some pieces of recorded information, like
tax returns, are created to serve a temporary purpose and
allowed to vanish but long-term value items of cultural heritage must be preserved in original.