60. The best title of the passage would be ___________________.
A. The Painting
Called Tres Personajes B. Gibson’ s
Experience
C. Finding Tres Personajes D.
$ 1 M Piece of Garbage
B
Tim Hyndes describe himself as a recovering “podaholic” (sb. addicted into sth.).
The 24-year-old
political science graduate from Chicago
says, “I look at people with their earplugs in all day now, and feel relieved
I’m over it. That glazed look they have in their eyes is really quite scary.”
Hyndes says he used to carry his iPod
with him at all times and at night he listened to soft music to help him sleep.
After more than a year, he found he missed not only talking to people, but also
“the sounds of the world around me”.
He now uses his iPod only at the gym and sometimes for a treat he listens
to music in bed.
Some teachers and
parents say iPod and other MP3 players are turning
young people into zombies .
London high school teacher, Rachel Oppenheim, regrets buying an iPod
for her children. “I should have known it would lead to fights and family
stress,” he says.
After a few weeks
of arguing, the kids decided to take turns using the iPod.
They can also book ahead if they want to use it for more than one day at a time
and must p[ay back extra days.
The problem is
that they love their iPod so much that they keep the
earplugs in almost 24 hours a day. “The iPod has
really changed their behavior,” Oppenheim says. “They
are completely wrapped up in their music and hardly speak or even seem to
notice what’s going on around them.”
She worries this
will contribute to the growing problem of teenage isolation ( lonely) in
society. However, some US
colleges are helping to increase young people’s addiction to iPods. In 2004, Duke
University in North Carolina gave iPod to all freshmen so they could download Podcast lectures. Other universities have followed suit since.
William Lynch,
director of the school of education of Philadelphia’s
Drexel University, says, “We want students to
be able to take the professor with them wherever they go.”
But some
academics argue that this makes classes almost pointless and encourages
non-attendance and isolation, Why talk to others on campus when you can choose
from thousands of songs instead?
Recovering podaholic Tim Hyndes knows why.
“Humans are social creatures,” he says. “Shutting yourself from the world is
unnatural, not to mention rude at times.”
