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imagine that plain paper copiers would become so popular. Today these 2. การถ่าย
machines can make many kinds of business communications surprisingly (ข่าวสาร)
efficient. Facsimile equipment is also extremely useful as a communication ข้อมูลเพ่ือ
tool, particularly for graphic and text transmission.2 ส่งต่อ

Explanation
1. be likely to เป็น​ส�ำนวน​ท่ี​ใช้​เมื่อ​ต้องการ​แสดง​ถึง​การก​ระ​ท�ำห​ รือ​เหตุการณ์​ท่ี​อาจ​จะ​เป็น​ได้​หรือ​เกิด​ขึ้น​ได​้

ในอนาคต
ตัวอย่างเ​ช่น
- He is not likely to complete his project this week.
- They are likely to produce more due to increasing demand.
2. some of which
ใน​ประโยค​ท่ี​มี​ลักษณะ​ไม่​ชี้เ​ฉพาะ​เจาะจง (non-identifying clause) ค�ำท​ ี่​เป็น pronoun ซึ่งแ​ สดงจ​ �ำนวน

หรือปริมาณ เช่น some, any, none, all, both, several, enough, many และ few สามารถ​ใช้​กับ of
whom และ of which ได้ เช่น
- It’s a group of nine students, all of whom are studying music.
- He has bought many books from the bookstore, some of which are written by the same

author.
- I have written to several penfriends abroad, some of whom have never learned about

Thailand.

Reading Passage 7

The first stage - Task automation
So if you are in the initial stages of office automation, you should not bother with

conceptual discussions. Your strategy should be simple — try to use more electronics for your
individual business convenience. However, it is extremely important that the equipment and
components you purchase be reliable and durable.

I call this first stage of automation “task automation,” which can then become the basis
for higher level of office automation.

The second stage - Operation automation
If your office is already equipped sufficiently with task automation, you should consider

operation automation as the next step. By operation automation, I mean the use of electronic
technology for improving the efficiency of key sectors of your business operations. The focus here