【正确答案】 Information Explosion It is known to all that ours is an information era, in which information is available through many channels, such as books, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations and the Internet. The rapid increase in the amount of published information and the effects of this abundance of data are known as information explosion. Too much information has inevitably become a heavy burden to some people's spiritual life because they do not know what infornmation to turn to. There is no doubt that information explosion has its advantages. As mentioned earlier, we can get information through many channels. For example, if we want to collect information concerning a well-known product, we can do so by reading newspapers, magazines, watching TV or surfing the Internet. The greatest advantage of information explosion lies in the convenience it has offered us. However, information explosion has its disadvantages. For instance, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, and the Internet are able to provide us with a sea of information, faced with which we have great difficulty in selecting information suitable for us. On the basis of the above analysis, it can be concluded that information explosion is a mixed blessing. As far as we are concerned, we must not be nervous in the face of information explosion. What really counts is to learn to filter the information we have got. In other words, we must learn to distinguish true information from false information, differentiate useful information from harmful information.