1 . As young people spend more time on computers, iPad and other TV sets, researchers are asking how all that screen time affects children’s and teenagers’ ability to focus and learn — even drive cars.
An online survey offers a new question: how is technology affecting their happiness and emotional development? The answer, from girls ages 8 to 12 having the online habits, is that those who say they spend amounts of time using multimedia describe themselves in ways that suggest they are less happy and less socially comfortable than other teenagers who say they spend less time on screens.
Among the key questions that the researchers are not able to answer is whether the heavy use of media is the cause for the relative unhappiness or whether girls who are less happy to begin with are drawn to heavy use of media, in fact, coming to a virtual (虚拟的) world. But the researchers assume that heavy use of media is a main factor to the social challenges of girls.
The reason the researchers say is that on a basic level girls need to experience the full face-to-face communication, such as learning to read body language and facial expressions.
Lucy Gray, 45, who lives in Chicago, said her daughter, Julia, 13 has been a heavy consumer of media for several years -she watches movies on her laptop, and has an iPad, an iPhone and a Nintendo DS portable game machine. Ms. Gray said that Julia can have trouble getting on with other people especially adults in face-to-face interactions, but she is not ready to blame her daughter’s heavy use of technology.
In fact, she thinks that, on the whole, the technology has helped her daughter navigate (航行) the world socially. “She’d be missing out on an opportunity if she wasn’t connected,” she said.
At the same time, Ms. Gray said she worries that her daughter, who is using Facebook more, is playing out her social life online sometimes without the benefits of the full emotional range that comes from face-to-face interaction.
“It’s a double-edged sword,” Ms. Gray said to social media.
1. What is the disadvantage of online habit for young girls?| A．They are more likely to cause car accidents. |
| B．They are less likely to be liked by teachers at school. |
| C．They may feel uncomfortable and unhappy in social life. |
| D．They may be cheated into doing something bad at school. |
| A．led into a world breaking away from the reality |
| B．inspired to devote themselves to learning science |
| C．directed to come to a world of happiness and luck |
| D．encouraged to face the challenges of the unhappy life |
| A．are not good at making friends online |
| B．lack real communication experience in general |
| C．are careless at seeing others’ facial expressions |
| D．spend too much time studying at and after school |
| A．She will allow her to use her iPad and iPhone only. |
| B．She will forbid her to use any kind of media. |
| C．She will allow her to use the media on weekends. |
| D．She will allow her to use all the media as usual. |
| A．Their quarrels are about whether she should use the media. |
| B．Julia likes to meet the real people knowing of on Facebook. |
| C．Julia’s performance isn’t good enough in real social life. |
| D．Julia spends too much time sending text messages. |
2 . Social media use has been linked to mental health, especially in teenage girls. But a new study argues that the situation may be more serious than experts think.
The research involved interviews once a year from 2013 to 2015 with almost 10, 000 children between the ages of 13 and 16 in England. They would report how many times a week they used social media on average. Based on the results,researchers would lean how dependent they were on the social media. Researchers noted that they did not get how much time those children spent on the websites, which is a limitation of the study.
“Our results suggest that social media itself doesn't cause harm, but that frequent use may subvert activities that have a positive influence on mental health such as sleeping and exercising. And then it will increase exposure (接触) of young people to harmful content, particularly the negative experience of cyber - bullying (网络欺凌),” study co - author Russell Viner said in a statement. Researchers found that social media may harm girls' mental health. However, for boys, the influence on their mental health seems to be due to other reasons, so further research is needed.
In 2014 and 2015, researchers asked about the teens' psychological sufferings and their personal happiness. The researchers found that, in both sexes, very frequent social media use was connected with greater psychological sufferings. The effect was especially clear among girls. The more often they checked social media, the greater their psychological sufferings would be.
Bob Patton, a psychologist from the University of Surrey, said the research showed strategies focusing only on reducing social media use as a tool to improve mental health might not help. “Building strategies to increase resilience (适应力) to cyber - bullying and improve the sleep and exercise behaviors may help reduce both physical and psychological harm,” Patton, who was not involved in the research, said in a statement. “If teenagers can change their unhealthy lifestyle and cyber - bullying can be reduced, the positive effects of social media use can be supported,” he added.
1. What do we know about the research in Paragraph 2?| A．Over 10, 000 teenagers took part in the research |
| B．It took researchers two years to do the research |
| C．Researchers marked how often teenager used social media |
| D．Researchers recorded the total time the children spent online |
| A．Stop | B．Destroy | C．Change | D．Increase |
| A．Social media use does more harm to girls |
| B．Girls use social media more frequently than boys |
| C．The frequent users of social media usually have mental problems |
| D．Boys' psychological sufferings mainly come from cyber - bullying |
| A．Cyber - bullying is hard to deal with |
| B．Parents should protect teenagers from hot Social media |
| C．Good online habits help teenagers benefit from social media |
| D．People should pay more attention to face - to - face communication |
| A．The harmful effects of social media use |
| B．The reasons for reducing social media use |
| C．The ways to reduce harm of social media use |
| D．The importance of knowing about cyber - bullying |
