4 . How to End a Video Game Addiction

Playing video games casually can be a great way to relax and have fun. But if you’re so absorbed in gaming that it feels like it’s taking over your life, you may have a video game addiction.     1     The following tips may help you.

Give yourself a strict time limit for daily play.

Health experts recommend that school-aged kids should spend no more than 2 hours a day in front of a screen. If you’re struggling with too much gaming, try setting specific limits for yourself on how long you play each day.     2    

Keep gaming devices out of your bedroom.

If you have a computer, or other gaming device in your room, you may be attracted to stay up all night playing instead of getting the sleep you need.     3     If you have games on your phone, switch it off at night or put it somewhere you can’t easily reach it at bedtime.

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If you play games on your phone or on your computer, you can install (安装) apps that limit your play time or set alarms on some apps. Some apps can limit your access to specific games, while others will lock you out of your device altogether during a set time.

Distract yourself with other fun activities during the day.

You’ll be less likely to get stuck on gaming if you have other things to keep you busy.     5     Schedule time that you’d normally spend gaming to do other things you like.

7 . When preparing for a training run in Smyrna, Georgia, 24-year-old amateur (业余的) boxer Bilal Quintyne noticed an older woman sitting in a wheelchair by the side of the road. The chair was ________, and she could not move.

“She kind of had a(n) ________ look,” Quintyne recalled. “I just asked her, ‘Are you okay?’”

The woman, 67-year-old Belinda Whitaker, told him that she had been there for 45 minutes since her wheelchair motor stopped working. But ________ a passerby who had helped her back into her chair after she was thrown to the ground by the initial jolt (颠簸), no one had offered ________.

So she asked Quintyne, “Would you call someone to help?”

“I’ll do you one better,” he said. “I’ll ________ you home.”

Whitaker’s home was a 30-minute walk, and the wheels on the 360-pound chair had seized up(卡住)， making it harder to push for the first part of the ________ . Along the way, Quintyne’s trainer, Tony Willingham saw what was going on and started ________ it.

By the time Quintyne got to Whitaker’s home, he was ________. Whitaker hugged him anyway, and he went on his way.

Then Quintyne ________ Willingham’s video on his Facebook page, and it became a ________ immediately. It gained 3.4 million views, and he got calls from all over the world.

Quintyne said, “I don’t see myself as a superhero. I’m ________ a moral man doing what I can do.”

To Willingham, Quintyne’s act offers a ________ for the whole neighbourhood and the community. “There are still such things as being a good neighbour, there are still such things as sacrifice (牺牲), there are still such things as caring, there are still such things as sending a(n) ________ out saying, ‘I’m not too busy,’” Willingham said, “I thought that message was worth ________ with other people. The world should know that Bilal Quintyne exists, and that might ________ people to pay it forward, to say, ‘Hey, I want to do that for someone else.’”

8 . Public service advertising is designed to inform the public on issues that are frequently considered to be in the general best interests of the community at large. Typically, it reflects a political viewpoint, philosophical theory, religious concept or humanitarian notion (人道主义观念). It is also commonly referred to as a public service announcement (PSA) or a community service announcement (CSA). The ads are usually broadcast on radio or television, but may also appear in newspapers or magazines. They are common in industrialized countries throughout the world.

PSAs are commonly aimed at changing public attitudes by raising awareness about particular issues. Health, conservation and safety themes are prevalent in many PSAs. The public service advertising campaigns are often sponsored (赞助) by trade associations, civic (市政的) organizations, non-profit institutions or religious groups.

Most public service advertising involves joint efforts of the private and public sectors (部门). Non-profit groups and government agencies commonly team up with private mass media, promotion and advertising firms to produce spots for radio, television and print media. Most commonly, the non-profit agency creates the message and an advertising firm develops the campaign, polishes it to meet industry standards and plans its distribution, all free of charge. Television and radio stations usually broadcast these ads at no charge, and magazines and newspapers usually publish them for free as well.

In recent years, it has become commonplace for U. S. television stations to feature public service advertising spots immediately following a broadcast that has focused on an issue considered sensitive and of concern to many members of the general public. These PSA broadcasts generally offer addresses, Web sites and toll-free telephone numbers for information sources. Some of the topics focused on in the PSAs have included child abuse, AIDS and civil rights.