手机上瘾症英语作文.docx

作者：百香果巨无霸 要求： 1. 手机上瘾症 Read carefully the following excerpt on students’ addiction to cell phones, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should： summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then comment on how addiction to cell phones does harm to students. You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 400 Students Take 3-week “No Cell Phone Challenge” Recently, a series of bracelets have gone viral on Weibo. On these specially made bracelets are the words “ Cell Phone Ninja”. The bracelets are actually part of an experiment carried out by Chongqing Three Gorges University that challenges students not to use cell phones in class for 21 days. Each student who volunteered to participate received a bracelet. Before the first class and after the last class of each day, students were instructed to upload a photo of their bracelet to the school’s public WeChat account if they did not use their cell phones. Over 800 students signed up for the experiment and 400 were selected to participate. After seven days, only 103 students remained. The experiment was set for 21 days because of a claim in psychology that 21 days is the length of time required to form any habit. According to the teachers monitoring the activity, there were no rewards or punishments in the experiment. It depended on students themselves to make the decision. Teachers hoped students could form better study habits through activities like this one. According to a new poll which was conducted for Common Sense Media, 50 percent of teens feel they are addicted to their mobile devices. A larger number of parents, 59 percent, said their teens were addicted. The poll involved 1,240 interviews with parents and their children, aged 12 to 18. Nearly 80 percent of teens in the new survey said they ch