In South Korea, children get used to the Internet at an early age. A survey last year by the Ministry of information and Communication showed that nearly half of children between the age of 3 and 5 use the internet.
“In south Korea,
the Internet has become a babysitter, said Lee Kyong Ko, a professor at Duksing, Women’s University in Seoul.
Online role-playing games, where participants make friends and band together, have a strong appeal to Koreans,“One problem with those games is that you build your online person through countless hours of battles, and you develop a huge emotional attachment to your game character,”said Chang Woo Min, a one-time online gamer.
Parents report that their children steal money and do not come home for days and even weeks, practically living in Internet Cafes, and sometimes they refuse to look for jobs and play games all night and sleep during the day.
The authorities require Internet cafes to keep their distance from schools, and they open camps for teenage addicts and distribute booklets(小冊子) on the dangers of game addiction. In addition, they are training hundreds of counselors, who visit schools and Internet Cafes.
In the 28,000 Internet Cafes in South Korea, persons under 18 are banded from entry after 10 p.m.. The authorities have even discussed reducing the points of gamers who play for more than three consecutive (連續(xù)的) hours, But such talks have produced no agreement, amid concerns that such restrictions would put a high-growth industry in danger and worse the problem of teenagers stealing adult online identification numbers,“Sooner or later we will be able to announce our measures,”the minister of Information and Communication, Rho Jun Hyoung, said at a news conference in May.“Since South Korea is one of the most active and developed countries in the Internet, the world is paying great attention to What policy we will adopt on this problem.”
小題1:According to the passage, in order to solve the Internet problem, the authorities of South Korea took the following measures EXCEPT
A.demanding the Internet Cafes to be far away from schools |
B.telling the students about the dangers of game addiction |
C.training counselors to visit schools and cafes |
D.banning all the people from entering the Internet after 10 p.m. |
小題2:We can learn that
from the passage.
A.most children under 6 in the South Korea use the Internet |
B.some parents hope their children use the Internet only at home |
C.all kinds of measures are not supported by all the people |
D.the authorities in the South Korea believe that it is most active and developed country in the Inter |
小題3:In paragraph 2,the underlined sentence “
the Internet has becomes a babysitter”means
.
A.children are well looked after on the Internet |
B.children likes sitting in the Internet Cafes |
C.children can earn money working as a babysitter in Internet Cafes |
D.Internet has become a place where children are looked after while their parents are not there |
小題4:The passage is written to tell us_________________.
A.the Internet problems in South Korea | B.the bad effects of the Internet |
C.the measures of the authorities | D.teenagers like going surfing in South Korea |