Unit One

Section A Electronic Commerce & 1. What is Electronic Commerce(e- commerce)? Electronic commerce means enterprises or companies make use of Internet and information technologies, aiming at raising operation efficiency, to carry out every phase of business procedures automatically, electronically and with paper documents eliminating. market researching, negotiating, delivering, producing, money transferring and after-sale services providing and so on.

Section A Electronic Commerce & 2. What are the advantages of E-commerce? 1). People can do business through Internet or www instead of face to face. 2). Without geographical constrains and time limitation, buyers and sellers have far more chances to contact each other. 3). Both parties can save time and money.

3. What is (electronic mail )? It is the modernist communication service which can send a message to any person in the world who has an address within a short time. Section A Electronic Commerce &

4. What are the advantages of ? ⑴ It can be communicated as fast as telex and fax. ⑵ It is cheaper than an international phone call, fax, and telex. ⑶ The message and pictures can be sent easily. ⑷ Some of addresses can be applied for free of charge, e.g. yahoo, hotmail, sina, ect. ⑸ It is a 24-hour service and the message can be received unattended.

Section B Examples of

Task 1 Send an to the student who sits next to you.

Task 2 Send an to according to the following 我们从阿里巴巴 (Alibaba) 上获悉你的名称 和地址。我们想告知你方我们是家具的出口商， 想借此机会与你方建立贸易关系。现附上最新 的目录和价格表供贵方参考。