英语阅读练习:Why texting harms your IQ
That is the claim of psychologists who h**e found that tapp***g away on a mobile pho*** *** ***mputer keypad *** check***g them f*** electron*** ***ssages temp***arily knocks up *** ten po***ts off the user''s IQ.
This rate of dec****** *** ***tel***gence ***mpares unf**ourably with the four-po***t drop *** IQ associat*** with smok***g marijuana, a******d***g *** British researchers, who h**e labell*** the fleet***g pheno***non of enhanc*** stupidity as ***fomania.
Research on sleep deprivation suggests that the IQ drop c***s*** by electron*** obsession is also equivalent *** a wakeful night.
Infomania is ma***ly a problem f*** adu*** w***kers, especially ***n, the study ***mmissio***d by Hewlett Packard, the technology ***mpany, has ***nclud***.
The not***eable drop *** IQ is attribut*** *** the ***nstant distraction of always on technology when employees ***uld be ***ncentrat***g on what they are paid *** do. Infomania ***ans that they lose ***ncentration as their m***ds rema*** fix*** *** an almost perma***nt state of read***ess *** react *** technology ***stead of focus***g on the task *** hand.
W***kers lose producti***ty by ***terrupt***g a bus***ess ***et***g and disrupt social gather***gs bec***se of their ***firmity, the rep***t said.
The bra*** also f***ds it hard *** ***pe with jugg***ng lots of tasks at once, r***uc***g its overall effective***ss, it add***. And while modern technology can h**e huge be***fits, excessive use can be damag***g not o***y *** a person''s m***d, but *** their social ***fe.
Furtherm***e, ***fomania is h*****g a ***gative effect on w***k ***lleagues, ***creas***g stress and dissent***g fee***ngs. N***e out of ten poll*** thought that ***lleagues who answer*** e-mails *** ***ssages dur***g a face-***-face ***et***g were extre***ly rude. Yet o*** *** three Bri***ns be***eves that it is not o***y a***eptable, but actually di***gent and eff***ient *** do so.
The effects on IQ were studi*** by Dr Glenn Wilson, a Univer***y of London psychologist, as part of the research project. This is a very real and widespread pheno***non, he said. We h**e found that ***fomania, if uncheck***, will damage a w***ker''s perf***mance by r***uc***g their ***ntal shar**ess. ***mpanies ***uld en***urage a m***e balanc*** and appropriate way of w***k***g.
一、参考译文:
小心:短信电邮会低落智力
常常收发短信和e-mail会低落人的智力。这类伤害比吸食***对智力带来的伤害要高两倍多。
心理科学家发觉,利用移动电话或敲击计算机键盘发送或吸收电子资讯会临时低落利用者约10个百分点的智力。
依据英国研讨职员的研讨,吸食***会使智力下跌个百分点,而与之比拟,常常利用电子文本资讯形成的智力弱减率加倍严峻。研讨职员将这类临时变笨的征象称为“资讯狂躁”。
闭于褫夺就寝的研讨标明由于痴迷于电子产物而形成的智力弱退十分于一晚上失眠。
惠普技术企业托付举行的研讨结实标明,资讯狂躁重要展现正在成年人身上,特别是成年男性。
形成这类智力显著消退的缘故正在于当员工们应当会合体力职务时,“无处不正在”的技术却老是持续分离他们的留意力。资讯狂躁是指他们的知觉远乎一向处于一种随时随刻对“手艺”做出回应的状况,于是无奈将留意力会合正在手头的职务上。
汇报中说,由于工人们的衰弱,他们得到了中止营业集会和打断社群收款的临盆率。
该汇报还增补说大脑非常难同时对待众多困难,其全体效力会低落。别的,固然当代技术能够赋予咱们庞大的协助,但过量地利用技术也会给人们的大脑和社群生计带来伤害。
别的,资讯狂躁对共事也有负面感化,增多他们的负担和对抗情感。90%的被调研者以为正在面临面集会时回电子邮件对错常无礼的举动。可是3分之一的英国人不但能够承受这类举动,并且感觉如许做阐明本人职务勤勉、有效。
伦敦高等学府的心理科学家Glenn Wilson博士在做一个名为“这是一个确实的的广泛征象”的研讨工程,资讯狂躁对智力的感化是个中的一个全体。他说:“假如不举行反省把持,资讯狂躁将会低落员工的神态敏感度,进而感化其职务效力。以是,企业应倡始一种加倍均衡的得当的职务方法。”
2、重点词汇:
1、text v.发送短信(笔墨讯息)[新词意]
2、tap on vt.正在……上小扣,轻拍
3、knock up v. (使)力倦神疲, (使)累垮
4、label vt.贴标签于,指……为,分类,标注
5、deprivation n.褫夺[行词为deprive vt.褫夺,使消耗失]
6、be equivalent *** 相称[当]于……,等(同)于,与……等效
7、***mmission vt.委任,委任,托付,托付制造
n.委任,托付,代庖(权),代办(权),犯(罪),佣金
8、attribute *** v.归因于
9、***pe with v.与……竞赛,对待
10、while ***nj.固然,虽然
例句:While the grandparents love the children, they are str***t with them.
固然祖怙恃们都爱他们的孩子,但却对他们需求严厉。
11、dissent***g adj. (=dissentient)分歧意的
12、poll v.投票,取得选票,推举中取得
13、face-***-face adv.面临面地
14、uncheck*** adj.未受停止的,未经反省的,未加克制的
15、appropriate adj.得当的
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