综合英语5Unit 9 Kids and Computers.ppt

Unit 9 Kids and Computers:Digital Danger Alison Sperry digital adj. processing, operating on, storing, transmitting, representing, or displaying data in the form of numerals from 0 through 9 1. Computers are indispensable in and out of class for our studies. Computers can be used for information, instruction and entertainment. How do you take advantage of your computer? 2. With the advent of computers, video games came into being, which have aroused great controversy. Do you play them? And whats your opinion about them, helpful or harmful in your life? This expository essay, developed mainly by contrast, contains vivid accounts, and impressive descriptions of both typically active and passive games that kids often play. As is suggested by the title, this essay mainly proves or illustrates the digital danger to which so many children are exposed. Are computer games fundamentally different from board games(棋类）? Does talking on the phone develop the same skills as chatting online? Whats the difference between painting with watercolors and coloring with a desktop paint-box program? Alison Sperry, the writer of this essay explored these questions and came up with some disturbing answers. Nintendo babies (Paragraph 2) children who grew up during a period when video games developed by Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂公司), a leading manufacturer of home video games and portable video games, were very popular. Virtual Boy and Mortal Kombat (Paragraph 2) Virtual Boy is Nintendos unique 3-D gaming system and was released in fall, 1995; Mortal Kombat is a series of Nintendos fighting games. Uncle Wiggly (Paragraph 2) a series of popular childrens stories themed around a kindly, elderly, rabbit gentleman, Uncle Wiggly Longears, which were first written in 1910 by Howard R. Garris who wrote a new adventure every day for 50 years Play-Doh (Paragraph 3) a trademark for a soft colored modeling material used especially by children Monopoly (Paragraph 7) a trademark