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听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report.
The Internet is one of the most popular forms of technology. But can using Internet have the same effect as taking a drug? The answer seems to be "Yes" in at least one country.China says many teenagers are Internet addicts. It says they have grown dependent on the Internet. In fact, China feels that Internet addiction is the biggest threat to its teenagers. Some critics even call the Internet, ‘electronic heroin.'
In 2008, China became one of the first countries to declare Internet addiction an official medical condition. Experts released a report that defined the condition, or disorder. It said people with Internet Addiction Disorder spend more than six hours online doing something other than work or study. Based on the definition, China has over 20 million Internet addicts. The condition has led to the creation of over 250 camps within China. They are designed to treat young addicts.
The first addiction camp opened in 2005 in the capital, Beijing. The camps treat the country's young addicts for their dependence on the Internet and video gaming.
Teenagers can spend three to four months at a camp. Once there, the patients are required to do demanding physical exercises and take medication. Some patients reportedly are placed in rooms by themselves for up to 10 days.
Eric Harwit is a professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii. Professor Harwit says Chinese parents are worried because they take education very seriously. He says they saw a lot of teenagers start to lose interest in school and spend their time playing games on the Internet.
Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia are filmmakers from Israel. They released a documentary called Web Junkie last month. It tells about the Internet addiction camps. Their film was produced at the Daxing treatment center in Beijing.
Hilla Medalia says there are no showers at the camp. The teenagers wake up very early in the morning. She says it is like the addicts are doing military training.
But Ms. Medalia says camp officials believe conditions like these provide a discipline, or sense of self-control, that the patients need.
Officials at the Daxing treatment center said that 70 percent of their patients overcame Internet addiction.
Eric Harwit says once the teenage patients leave the camp, they are not supposed to play games. But they still have to use the Internet. He says a lot of research is now done online.
China is not the only country dealing with Internet addiction. South Korea has opened over 100 treatment centers for teenagers suffering from the effects of 'electronic heroin.'
And that's the VOA Learning English Technology Report. I'm Jonathan Evans.
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词汇解释
1.addict n. 有瘾的人；入迷的人 vt. 使沉溺；使上瘾
He's only 24 years old and a drug addict.
他只有24岁，可已经是一个瘾君子。
2.documentary adj. 记录的；文件的；记实的 n. 纪录片
The government says it has documentary evidence that the two countries were planning military action.
该政府宣称，它拥有这两个国家正在策划军事行动的书面证据。
3.heroin n. [药][毒物] 海洛因，吗啡
He had to surrender the watches to the police in which the heroin was hidden.
他被迫向警察交出了那些藏有海洛因的手表。
内容解析
1.Eric Harwit says once the teenage patients leave the camp, they are not supposed to play games.
supposed to 应该，猜想会
The government, the executive and the judi-ciary are supposed to be separate.
政府、行政部门和司法部门应该彼此分离。
They are supposed to be here at about half four.
他们应该在4点半左右到达这里。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。
互联网是科技最受欢迎的形式之一，但使用网络能起到药物一样的效果吗？至少在一个国家，这个答案似乎是“是”，中国称许多青少年有网瘾，称这些青少年依赖于互联网。事实上，中国感到网瘾是青少年面临的最大威胁，有的批评家甚至称互联网是“电子海洛因”。
2008年，中国是第一批宣布网瘾为正式医学疾病的国家之一，专家发布的报告给这种疾病下了定义。报告称患有网瘾失调的人每天花6个小时以上在网上做学习和工作之外的事。根据这一定义，中国有2000多万网瘾患者。这一现状使得中国出现250多家训练营，其目的是培训青少年网瘾患者。
第一个网瘾训练营2005年出现在首都北京，该训练营为依赖于互联网和视频游戏的青少年患者提供治疗。
青少年可以在训练营呆上三到四个月，一旦到了那里，他们就被要求做有难度的身体训练并服药，据悉有的患者将自己关在房间里长达10天。
埃里克·哈维特是夏威夷大学亚洲研究教授，哈维特教授说中国家长们很担心，因为他们很看重教育。他说家长们看到很多青少年开始失去对学习的兴趣，在互联网上打游戏。
秀施·施兰姆和希拉·米达利亚是来自以色列的电影制作人，他们上月发布了一部名为《网瘾》的纪录片，纪录片讲述了网瘾训练营的故事，这部影片是在北京大兴网瘾治疗中心拍摄的。
米达利亚说训练营里没有淋浴间，青少年们每天早上要起来很早，她说这些网瘾少年像是在做军事训练。
但米达利亚说训练营的官方人员认为这种生活环境起到加强纪律的作用，也就是自我控制感，这正是网瘾少年们所需要的。
大兴网瘾训练中心的官方人员称70%的网瘾患者都克服了网瘾。
埃里克·哈维特称一旦青少年患者离开训练营，他们就不该再玩游戏，但他们还会使用互联网，他说目前目前网上进行了很多研究。
中国并不是需要对付网瘾的唯一国家，韩国已经为受这种“电子海洛因”毒害的青少年开设了100多家网瘾戒除中心。
这就是美国之音慢速英语科技报道，我是乔纳森·伊万斯。
