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2017年12月英语四级美文:Computer Addiction

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  2017年12月英语四级美文100篇汇总

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  Computer Addiction

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  It is 3 A.M..

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  Everything on the university campus seems ghostlike in the quiet,

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  misty darkness —

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  everything except the computer center.

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  Here, twenty students sit transfixed at their consoles,

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  tapping away on the terminal keys.

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  With eyes glued to the video screen,

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  they tap on for hours.

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  For the rest of the world,

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  it might be the middle of the night,

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  but here time does not exist.

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  This is a world unto itself.

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  These young computer “hackers” are pursuing a kind of compulsion,

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  a drive so consuming it overshadows nearly every other part of their lives

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  and forms the focal point of their existence.

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  They are compulsive computer programmers.

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  Some of these students have been at the console for thirty hours or more

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  without a break for meals or sleep.

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  Some have fallen asleep on sofas and lounge chairs in the computer center,

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  trying to catch a few winks

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  but loathe to get too far away from their beloved machines.

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  Most of these students don’t have to be at the computer center

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  in the middle of the night.

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  They aren’t working on assignments.

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  They are there because they want to be —

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  they are irresistibly drawn there.

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  And they are not alone.

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  There are hackers at computer centers all across the country.

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  In their extreme form, they focus on nothing else.

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  They flunk out of school and lose contact with friends;

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  they might have difficulty finding jobs,

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  choosing instead to wander from one computer center to another.

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  They may even forgo personal hygiene.

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  “I remember one hacker.

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  We literally had to carry him off his chair to feed him and put him to sleep.

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  We really feared for his health,”

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  says a computer science professor at MIT.

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  Computer science teachers are now more aware of the implications

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  of this hacker phenomenon

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  and are on the lookout for potential hackers

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  and cases of computer addiction that are already severe.

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  They know that the case of the hackers

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  is not just the story of one person’s relationship with a machine.

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  It is the story of a society’s relationship

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  to the so-called thinking machines.

  2017年12月英语四级美文100篇汇总


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