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It was supposed to be a quick diversion, Katie Inman told herself last week as she flipped open her laptop. She had two tests to
It was supposed to be a quick diversion, Katie Inman told herself last week as she flipped open her laptop. She had two tests to
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2016-11-09
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It was supposed to be a quick diversion, Katie Inman told herself last week as she flipped open her laptop. She had two tests to study for, three problem sets due, a paper to revise. But within minutes, the MIT sophomore was drawn into the depths of the Internet, her work put aside.
"I had just closed Facebook, but then I reopened it. It’s horrible," said Inman, a mechanical engineering major. "I would type a sentence for my paper, and then get back on Facebook."
Desperate for
productivity
, Inman did something many of her classmates at one of the most wired campuses would find inconceivable. She installed a program that blocks certain websites for up to 24 hours. No social networking. No e-mail. No aimless surfing.
While Inman took matters into her own hands, some MIT professors are urging college leaders across the country to free students from their binding to technology. Over the past decade, schools raced to connect students to the Internet—in dorms, classrooms, even under the old oak tree. But now, what once would have been considered abnormal is an active point of discussion: pulling the virtual plug to encourage students to pay more attention in class and become more skilled at real-life social networking.
"I have been a bit suspicious about the value of making an entire campus wireless," said Lawrence Bacow, former chancellor of MIT, where he was a professor when it began wiring all classrooms in the mid-1990s. "It seems like everyone is always plugged in and always distracted."
At MIT, where the Internet is accessible even near the banks of the Charles River, students’ eyes obsessively wander, midconversation, down to laptops and cellphones, checking for missed updates from friends.
In class, professors complain about students trading stocks online, shopping for Hermes scarves, showing one another video clips on YouTube—leading some faculty to call for the unwiring of all lecture halls.
"Students are totally shameless about how they use their computers in class," said David Jones, an MIT professor. "I imagine having a Wi-Fi jammer in my lecture halls to block access to distractions."
While MIT has yet to unwire a single lecture hall, some law schools have in recent years blocked wireless access in classrooms to keep students engaged in Socratic discussions instead of their classmates’ Groupon and eBay activities.
Since digital monsters have come, can hunters be far behind?
Katie Inman is mentioned in the first two paragraphs as an example of________.
选项
A、academically excellent students
B、efficient users of the computer
C、students addicted to the Internet
D、heavy-loaded college students
答案
C
解析
文章第一段的大意是:Katie Inman是美国麻省理工学院大二学生,有不少作业要完成。她用笔记本电脑上网,本想只上网一会儿,但经不起网络世界的诱惑,很快就把作业忘在脑后了。第二段又说她无法安心写论文,时刻想着上网聊天。这说明她几乎成瘾了。
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