“I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”
“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”
“I spend more time in chat rooms（聊天室） than with my ‘real-1ife’ friends.”
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction（癮） called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug（毒品） use. People lose control（控制） of the time they spend on the Internet
For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight.
Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.
Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms（癥狀）：
●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
●You can’t wait for your next online time.
●You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
●You go out with your friends less and less.
◆根據(jù)以上短文內(nèi)容，然后從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選擇最佳選項(xiàng)。
1. What does the beginning of the passage tell us?
A. How to become an Internet addict. B. What an Internet addict usually does.
C. Where to find an Internet addict. D. Why to write this passage.
2 How does the writer describe the addicts’ use of Internet?
A. It is something like keeping drugs. B. It is a way of producing drugs.
C. It is like taking drugs. D. It is terrible to imagine.
3. Why do people worry about the teens?
A. The teens are wasting too much money.
B. They used to work on the Internet.
C. The playing field of the teens will disappear.
D. More and more of the teens wil1 become addicted to the Internet.
4. The example in the passage shows that _______.
A. Internet problems are more serious among college students
B. Internet addicts usually stay in the computer lab without sleep
C. Some of the Internet users have already been seriously addicted
D. The police often help to find those Internet addicts.
5. What is the writer trying to tell us at the end of the passage?
A. Don’t be addicted to the Internet.
B. Go to family activities more often.
C. Do things as you have planned
D. Stay with your parents as often as possible.
【答案及解析】
1. 選B。在短文的開頭就述說了這些上網(wǎng)成癮的人早上3、4點(diǎn)鐘起床去上網(wǎng)；每天四次看E-mail;每次上網(wǎng)時(shí)間不少于3小時(shí)；甚至在網(wǎng)上聊天的時(shí)間比跟自己朋友在一起的時(shí)間還多。這些都是他們經(jīng)常做的事情。故選B。
2. 選C。由句子The use of the Internet can be an addiction like during use.可知，人們上網(wǎng)成癮就跟take drug（吸毒）成癮一樣。
3. 選D。由第3段中的句子…people worry about the teens.及They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.可知，這是成癮的癥狀。故選D。
4. 選C。短文中講述了一個(gè)大學(xué)生失蹤了好幾天，他的朋友非常擔(dān)心，而且還動(dòng)用了警察去找他，結(jié)果卻發(fā)現(xiàn)他一直在上網(wǎng)。這說明一些上網(wǎng)的人已經(jīng)有很大的網(wǎng)癮了。故選C。
5. 選A。文章例舉了上網(wǎng)成癮的壞處，并在結(jié)尾處例舉了上網(wǎng)成癮的癥狀，這就是要提醒我們不要變成“網(wǎng)絡(luò)癮君子”。答案選A。
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