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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