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  3. My friend Mike was shaking his head in disbelief. " That young woman who just waited on me, " he said, pointing to an employee o

My friend Mike was shaking his head in disbelief. " That young woman who just waited on me, " he said, pointing to an employee o

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问题     My friend Mike was shaking his head in disbelief. " That young woman who just waited on me, " he said, pointing to an employee of the fast food restaurant where we were eating, " had to call someone over to help her count the change. The cash register(出纳机)showed her I need 99 cents, but she couldn’t figure out how to count out the coins. " I understood Mike’s concern. What we have done in this country, although unintentionally, is to create several generations of individuals most of whom have no idea how to reason, how to do simple math, how to do research, or finally how to be creative. The reason for this is our overuse of information technology: video games, television, digital watches, calculators, and computers. Information technology feeds us information without requiring us to think about it and let us perform operations without understanding them.
    It is time for us to take a hard look at an educational system that only teaches our children how to push buttons. Our kids can’t tell time if the clock has hands. They can use calculators, but cannot add, subtract, divide or multiply. Video games have taken the place of active, imaginative play. Although most of them are technically literate, they choose not to read. They are so used to television and movies that they cannot use their imagination to stay interested in a book.
    It is not enough to recognize the problem. What we need is solution. The one I offer is simple to suggest, but may be impossible to carry out. We must unplug our children. If we don’t, they will never learn how to solve problems. They will never learn basic reasoning skills and will certainly not develop creativity. Instead of filling classrooms with electronics, let’s concentrate on good old - fashioned literacy—reading books. Students must be taught not only to perform computer operations, but to figure and reason for themselves. They must see how things work and how process leads to results, they must also stretch their imagination.
What is the author’s and his friend Mike’s concern?
选项 A、The educational system is now creating people who can’t think for themselves.
B、People now rarely do things on their own.
C、Computers feed us too much information nowadays.
D、The restaurant does not provide good service.
答案A
解析 细节题。本题问作者和他的朋友麦克担忧的是什么。根据本文第一节第四至第六行可知：答案是A。即：教育制度培养了自己不会思考问题的人，尽管其根本原因是在于过多地运用了信息技术。
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