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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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