Question

【題目】Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Screen-addicted teens are unhappy

A new study explored the link between adolescent life satisfaction and screen time. Researchers found that teens who spent more time in front of screen devices -- playing computer games, using social media, texting and video chatting -- were less happy than those who invested more time in non-screen activities like sports, reading newspapers and magazines, and face-to-face social interaction.

Total screen avoidance doesn't lead to happiness either. The greater unhappiness among those with no screen exposure could be due to several factors, Twenge, the leading researcher said. “It could be that they are left out of the social scene of high school, that it’s very difficult to carry on friendships in high school these days without texting at all or being on social media.” It is also possible that those kids are outliers, Twenge said — teens with special needs or in special education, or those whose screens have been taken away from them by parents.

The key to digital media use and happiness is limited use. The happiest teens used digital media a little less than an hour per day. But after a daily hour of screen time, unhappiness rises steadily along with increasing screen time, the researchers report in the journal Emotion.

"Make effort to spend no more than two hours a day on digital media, and try to increase the amount of time you spend seeing friends face-to-face and exercising -- two activities reliably linked to greater happiness." Twenge said.

"By far the largest change in teens' lives between 2012 and 2016 was the increase in the amount of time they spent on digital media, and the following decline in in-person social activities and sleep," the leading researcher said. "The arrival of the smartphone is the most reasonable explanation for the sudden decrease in teens' psychological well-being."

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Answer 1

【答案】Researchers found Teens who spent less time in front of screens and more time in non-screen activities were happier. But totally avoiding/breaking away from screens can be unpleasant. Limited use of digital media along with non-screen activities works better. The arrival of smartphones brings about teens’ negative psychological effects.

【解析】

本篇書面表達(dá)是概要寫作，要求概括屏幕時(shí)間對(duì)快樂的影響，包括研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)在屏幕前花更少時(shí)間的青少年更快樂，但完全脫離屏幕可能會(huì)令人不快，數(shù)字媒體的有限使用效果更好以及智能手機(jī)給青少年帶來了負(fù)面影響。注意詞數(shù)要求和使用自己的語言。

1、寫之前，需要認(rèn)真仔細(xì)地讀幾遍原文材料，讓理解更深刻。

2、遵循原文的邏輯順序，對(duì)重要部分的主題、標(biāo)題、細(xì)節(jié)進(jìn)行概括，全面清晰地表明原文信息。

3、給摘要起一個(gè)好標(biāo)題，比如：可以采用文中的主題句。

4、盡量使用自己的話完成，不要引用原文的句子，篇幅控制在原文的三分之一或四分之一長(zhǎng)。