2018年6月英语四级听力美文第13篇:To Do or Not to Do?

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　　英语四级听力美文第13篇:To Do or Not to Do?
        　　The Answer Is a Click-Away Can’t decide whether to dump your boyfriend,
move house or sellyour car? The answer may be just a click-away.Two British men
and three women will let theInternet play God for 15 days by handing over their
daily, sometimes life-changing decisions, toa potential jury of 12.7 million
people, Internet news portal MSN said in a statement. Thefive people were chosen
as part of a project to give the Internet a chance to help ordinarypeople make
important daily decisions.
        　　This latest venture comes three decades after the publication of Luke
Rhinehart’s best-sellingbook “The Dice Man”, the story of a man who gives up his
control of life to the dice, and follows the worldwidesuccess of reality TV show
“Big Brother”. Each of the five will put a decision a day to theInternet
community and will have to act on the outcome of the decision, although they
willbe given a “joker”— meaning they can back out of one decision — during the
period, MSN said. Internet users around the world will be able to vote on
thedecisions each day by visitingwww.liveyourlife.msn.co.uk. A dedicated site
has been createdaround each participant, giving information about their
backgrounds, their loves, hates, hopesand daily diary updates.
        　　At the end of the 15 days, web users will decide which of the five has let
the Internet live theirlife to the maximum and he or she will win 10,000 pounds.
In the past people tended to rely on dice or somefortune books to decide their
next action. Nowadays it seems a popular trend to express theirproblems on the
Internet to seek help. But is it really beneficial to make decisions based onthe
Internet? Or we’d better depend on ourselves and be responsible for our own
lives.