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考研时文阅读(10)(2008-11-27 10:09:57)转载标签： 考研时文阅读教育 分类： 阅读篇 Experts on reading wonder: is the Internet friend or foe? 阅读专家不解：互联网究竟是朋友还是敌人？ Books are not Nadia Konyk’s thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows interest. Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer in this suburb southwest of Cleveland. 纳迪娅·科尼克不喜欢读书。她的妈妈为引发她的兴趣，从图书馆借了一些书回家，但纳迪娅基本不感兴趣。相反，和众多青年一样，15岁的纳迪娅迷上了互联网。她通常每天都要在位于克利夫兰西南郊家中的电脑前花去至少6个小时。 Nadia checks her e-mail and peruses , a social networking site, reading messages or posting updates on her mood. She searches for music videos on YouTube and logs onto Gaia Online, a role-playing site where members fashion alternate identities as cutesy cartoon characters. But she spends most of her time on or , reading and commenting on stories written by other users and based on books, television shows or movies. Her mother, Deborah Konyk, would prefer that Nidia, who gets A’s and B’s at school, read books for a change. But at this point, Konyk said, “I’m just pleased that she reads something anymore.” 纳迪娅查收电子邮件并浏览社交网站myyearbook. Com，在网站上阅读留言或是发帖表达自己最近的心情。她在YouTube网站上搜索音乐视频并登录角色扮演网站盖亚在线Gaia Online,，会员可以在这个网站上自行定制“做可爱状的”卡通人物作为个人形象。但是她大部分时间都泡在网站或 网站上，阅读或评论别人改编自书籍、电视节目或电影的故事。 她的母亲德博拉·科尼克更愿意让学习成绩优良的纳迪娅换个口味，多读点书。但科尼克这会儿却说：“我高兴的是，她还是在读东西。” Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. The discussion is playing out among education policymakers and reading experts around the world, and within groups like the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of readingdiminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a p