Dr. Cash's Internet/Computer Addiction Services was established under the Microsoft Corpor

Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way

The waiting room for Hilarie Cash's practice has the look and feel of many a therapist's office, with comforting classical music, paintings of gentle swans and colorful flowers and on the bookshelves piles of brochures on how to get help.

But along with her patients, Dr. Cash, who runs Internet/Computer Addiction Services here in the city that is home to Microsoft, is a pioneer in a growing trend in mental health care and addiction(上瘾) recovery. The patients, including Mike, 34, are what Dr. Cash and other mental health professionals call onlineaholics. They even have a diagnosis(诊断结果): Internet addiction disorder.

These specialists estimate that 6 percent to 10 percent of the around 189 million Internet users in this country have a dependency that can be as destructive as alcoholism and drug addiction, and they are rushing to treat it. Most of such users are online to further addictions to gambling or pornography(色情资料). But other users have a broader dependency and spend hours online each day, surfing the Web, trading stocks or instant messaging and a fast-rising number are becoming addicted to Internet video games.

Dr. Cash and other professionals say that people who abuse the Internet are typically struggling with other problems, like depression and anxiety. But, they say, the Internet's offer of escape from reality, and the opportunity for keeping unknown can also attract otherwise healthy people into an addiction.

Dr. Cash and other therapists say they are seeing a growing number of teenagers and young adults as patients, who grew up spending hours on the computer, playing games and sending instant messages. These patients appear to have significant developmental problems, including attention disorder and a lack of social skills.

A report released during the summer by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that teenagers did spend an increasing amount of time online: 51 percent of teenage Internet users are online daily, up from 42 percent in 2000. But the report did not find a fading of social skills. Most teenagers "maintain energetic networks of friends", it noted.

A growing number of therapists and recovery centers are often treating Web addicts with the same approaches used to treat chemical addictions. There is one inpatient program, at Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Illinois, which accepts patients to recover from online addiction. Experts there said they see similar signs in those patients as in alcoholics or drug addicts, including sweating, severe anxiety, etc. The hospital's treatment program places all its clients together for group therapy and other recovery work, whether the addiction is to drugs or the computer.

Several counselors and other experts said time spent on the computer was not important in diagnosing an addiction to the Internet. The question, they say, is whether Internet use is causing serious problems, including the loss of a job, marital difficulties, depression, isolation and anxiety, and still the user cannot stop. "The line is drawn with Internet addiction," said Mr. Zehr of Proctor Hospital, "When I'm no longer controlling my Internet use, it's controlling me".

Some therapists and Internet addiction treatment centers offer online counseling, including at least one 12-step program for video game addicts, which is controversial. Critics say that although it may be a way to catch the attention of someone who needs face-to-face treatment, it is more like to treat an alcoholic in a wine factory, mostly because Internet addicts need to break the cycle of living in cyberspace.

A crucial difference between treating alcoholics and drug addicts, however, is that total prohibition ban is usually recommended for recovery from substance abuse, whereas moderate and manageable use is the goal for behavioral addi

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The most correct way to cite an Internet source is:()

A."According to an online article by Dr. H. Nichols, a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN"

B."According to NBC's website"

C."According to the June 22, 1999 on-line version of the Chicago Sun Times, Dr. Herald, a doctor at ABC Hospital, says"

D."Dr. Jones, a prestigious microbiologist, was quoted online as saying

Whats the solution for technology addiction, according to Dr. Kimberly Young？

A．To admit that the Internet is woven into people"s lives.

B．To set limits on the frequency of checking e-mails.

C．To understand the similarities between disordered eating and online behaviors.

D．To find out what people try to avoid in reality by using the Internet.

听力原文：W: Dr. Smith, thank you for coming to our program.

M: My pleasure.

W: When you said that the Internet is causing a decline in psychological well-being, what do you mean by that？

M: Well, psychologically, people are getting more depression and loneliness than before, especially for those who spend long time on the Internet.

W: So if people spend just a few hours a week on the Internet, they would not have the bad feeling then？

M: Not really. Actually, it's not the long time on the Net that causes them feel bad but the state of being on the Net does.

W: But you said you had much brighter expectations at first.

M: Yes, we supposed that the Net would prove to be socially healthier than television, since the Net allows users to choose their information and to communicate with others.

W: Then, why did the result turn to be completely contrary to your expectations？

M: Well, people on the Net do have more "virtual" communication, but this kind of faceless and bodiless communication is less psychologically satisfying than actual conversation. And they reduce their time being with family and friends. Another possibility is that exposure to the wider world via the Net makes users less satisfied with their lives.

W: The Internet should be found guilty of this phenomenon, right？

M: I don't think so. It's not about the technology; it's about how it is used. It really points to the need for considering social factors in terms of how you design applications and services for technology.

22．What really makes people feel bad on the Internet according to the man？

23.Which is included in the expectations of the man at first？

24.Why do people get less happiness from the spiritual aspect？

25.What is the radical reason for this phenomenon according to the man？

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A．Spending more hours on the Internet.

B．Spending fewer hours on the Internet.

C．The state of being on the Internet.

D．Their brighter expectations not being met.

he most successful sites has been "oldfriends. com". Like all good ideas, this one is very simple. It's just a database of schools that you can add your name and e-mail address or phone number to, so that old friends can log on, find your details and contact you. In the studio today, we have two guests Mark Sorenson, a sociologist who has been investigating this phenomenon and Dr. Julie Arnforth, a psychologist who has recently produced a study of how and why friendships from the past can become very important to us in later life.

Who is speaking？

A．A sociologist

B．An old friend

C．Dr. Julie Arnforth

D．A radio or TV presenter

Historic Bedford Springs Hotel to Reopen in May

BEDFORD, Pa. — The historic Bedford Springs Hotel is set to reopen on Memorial Day after undergoing nearly two years of renovations costing $100 million.

Owners are installing modern conveniences such as flat-screen TVs, wireless Internet access and a state-of-the-art business center, while preserving the original character of the facility's 10 buildings. "It will be an unusual blend of the glories of days gone by and ultra-modern conveniences," said Mr. Winston, general manager. "That's the challenge — when the property was constructed, the requirements of electricity and heating/ventilation were very different. There was no air conditioning."

Dr. John Anderson bought the property in 1796 after discovering natural mineral springs on the grounds. He built bath houses for his patients and the resort's popularity soared in the 1800s.

The Springs served as the summer White House for James Buchanan, and other presidents also stayed there. Owners say rooms of the 216-room will start at $250 a night. They hope to gamer a 4.5- to 5-diamond rating from the American Automobile Association.

What is NOT mentioned as new conveniences？

A．Videoconference facilities.

B．Flat-screen TV.

C．Business center.

D．Wireless Internet access.

China promises Internet bounty

Yahoo! will pay $ 1 billion for a stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba. com as it battles other U.S. Internet companies for a foothold in China's fast-growing Internet market.

Other major U.S. Web players such as eBay, Amazon. com, Barry Diller's Interactive Corp. and Monster. com are shelling out big bucks for Chinese companies, although Yahoo! hit a new record.

Why the spending spree？

The same mason U. S. companies from Coca-Cola to General Motors have long beaten a path to China's door: The nation has a lot of people. And now it has a burgeoning middle class, primed to revel in prosperity by buying consumer goods.

Less than 8 percent of China's 1.3 billion people are online—but that still gives it 103 million Inter- net users, second only to the United States, with 203 million. By 2009, the number of Chinese Netizens is expected to surpass the number of Americans online. That year, Chinese e-commerce will be a $ 390.9 billion market, according to the research firm IDC.

Those colossal projections have U. S. investors salivating—even though actual Internet sales in China to date are minuscule. Yahoo's billion-dollar deal Thursday gives it a 40 percent stake in a company with just $ 68 million in 2004 revenue. It follows last week's debut of Baidu. com— "the Google of China"— which skyrocketed 354 percent on its opening day of trading on the Nasdaq stock market, despite having just $ 13.4 million in 2004 revenues. Google has a 2.6 percent stake in Baidu and reportedly would like more.

Moreover, e-commerce has some big obstacles in a country where credit cards are still, rare. Internet transactions are sometimes paid for by sending bicycle messengers with cash. PCs are beyond the reach of most of the multitudes, who had a gross national per capita income in 2002 of just $ 940, according to the World Bank.

But its massive demographics and surging economy—China's CDP grew 9 percent in 2004—make the People's Republic seem all the riper to U.S. companies. Now that explosive growth has slowed in the United States, Internet moguls see China as vast virgin territory.

"We are doubling down in China because the potential for Internet commerce in that country is simply extraordinary," eBay CEO Meg Whitman told analysts in February.

Internet firms in China "are getting in at the very beginning of a consumer economy that's really nascent," said Laura Martin, senior analyst with Soleil/Media Metrics in Pasadena, Calif. "First movers have the best advantage at creating enormous amounts of value."

Add to that the Chinese propensity for homegrown enterprises, and you've got a mini-gold rush as U. S, Internet firms vie for Chinese partners to help them penetrate beyond the Great Wall.

Peter Sealey, an adjunct professor of marketing at the University of California-Berkeley's Haas School of Business, was chief marketing officer for the Coca-Cola Corp. in 1979 when it entered China.

Like the U.S. Internet firms, Coke allied with Chinese companies. "You always want a partner on the ground who's native to the territory, who knows the political system, who has connections," Sealey said.

The soft-drink firm faced some marketing challenges. "Coke is an acquired taste," he said. "We had Fanta Orange soda—a taste (the Chinese) were accustomed to. We used to take a case of 24 bottles of Fanta and swap in two bottles of Coke. Then we had to run ads explaining that Coke should be consumed cold."

Internet firms are likely to face a different set of cultural barriers. The reliance on a cash economy is a big one. To help spur Web transactions, eBay is introducing its online payment system PayPal in China this year. Alibaba, Yahoo's new partner, already has a payment system called Alipay.

Then there's cost. "To

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attitude to facts. Students, for example, commission and sell essays with such ease there that online "paper mills" devoted to this trade are one of the few dotcom business models still thriving. With a few clicks of a mouse, a student can contract out any academic chore to "research" sites such as Gradersaver. com or the Evil House of Cheating.

One market opportunity, however, frequently creates another. The past few months have seen a rapid rise in interest in software designed to catch the cheats. The subscriber base of Turnitin, a leading anti-plagiarism software house based in Oakland, California, has risen by 25% since the beginning of the year. Around 150,000 students in America alone are under its beady electronic eye. And in Britain, the Joint Information Systems Committee, the unit responsible for advising the country's universities on information technology, has tested the firm's software in five colleges. If everything goes well, every university lecturer in the country will soon be able to inspect his students' submissions with it.

Turnitin's software chops each paper submitted for scrutiny into small pieces of text. The resulting "digital fingerprint" is compared, using statistical techniques originally designed to analyze brain waves (John Barrie, the firm's founder, was previously a biophysicist), to more than a billion documents that have been fingerprinted in a similar fashion. These include the contents of online paper mills. The classics of literature and the firm's own archive of all submitted term papers, as well as a snapshot of the current contents of the World Wide Web.

Whenever a matching pattern is found, the software makes a note. After highlighting instances of replication, or obvious paraphrasing(according to Turnitin, some 30% of submitted papers are "less than original"), the computer running the software returns the annotated document to the teacher who originally submitted it -- leaving him with the final decision on what is and is not permissible.

Which teachers and institutions will choose to employ such software？ Past research has shown that, perhaps surprisingly, academic dishonesty correlates with high academic achievement. Nor is public exposure of widespread cheating likely to polish a university's reputation. Universities with the highest-achieving students and the most faultless reputations may therefore have the must to lose from anti-plagiarism software. Indeed, a curious pattern has emerged among Turnitin's clients: good universities, such as Duke, Rutgers and Cornell, employ it. Those that like to think of themselves as top-notch, such as Princeton, Yale and Stanford, do not. According to Dr. Barrie, "You apply our technology at Harvard and it would be like a nuclear bomb going off."

From paragraph 1, we can learn that ______.

A．with Internet, students may find it even more difficult to do research work

B．Internet has provided the students a rich source of materials for paper compiling

C．Internet has beat the companies devoting to academic cheating greatly

D．the invention of Internet has created great opportunity for academic cheating

e opposite page about people who have set up their own internet companies.

&8226;Which extract (A, B, C, D or E) does each statement 1-8 refer to？

&8226;For each statement (1-8), mark one letter (A, B, C, D or E) on your Answer Sheet.

&8226;You will need to use some of these letters more than once.

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E-GAMES

John and Stephanie both wanted a complete career change. Selling children's games over the internet seemed a foolproof idea, but their biggest challenge was to secure financial backing. First they contacted numerous venture capitalists, but from the response of the few that would even talk to them, they realised they would get nowhere until they had spelt out in detail how they intended to turn their concept into reality. So the next step was to work with a group of start-up consultants, to devise a business plan making their expected revenue streams more precise.

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SUREK

Sue and Derek's plan was to sell clothes over the internet. After a shaky start, leading to serious cash flow problems, which meant they occasionally had little to live on, they realised they would have to advertise much more seriously: on the internet, they used online marketing tools to the full to produce increases in traffic, and combined this with intensive publicity outside the internet. Within six months they had built a large customer database, at which stage it was necessary to begin looking for capital to build the business.

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WONDERWEB

Two senior advertising executives, frustrated with the pace of change in an industry they felt was failing to take advantage of new media, Sally and Sue were keen to translate their advertising and marketing skills into an online environment. To their surprise, they found that many websites seemed to have been developed without taking any account of users' needs. Sure that the opportunity was ripe for a business with a strong marketing proposition, they started offering marketing services to other small online businesses.

D

SUPERGIFTS

Michael and Tony set up a company to sell up market gifts, such as glassware and porcelain, online. The niche market they have identified is professional and affluent, a group which their research revealed is increasingly internet literate, is looking for exceptional goods at the right price and has high service expectations. A low-level marketing campaign generated more than 2000 customers, with a high-value average order. The entire system from web order to delivery is proving to be highly successful, with all orders being fulfilled within the advertised five days without any returns or breakages.

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ABBIE'S

The first phases of the company's growth have been funded through a mix of personal investment, foregone salaries and bank overdraft. The next phase will be crucial. Their biggest challenge will be to distinguish themselves from a plethora of competitive sites, most of which are spending far more than they are. To stand out from the crowd, Paul and Abbie are working to target and reach their audience better, and generate higher sales, but of necessity without increasing their budget. The company's total marketing vision will be the key to success.

These people have not paid themselves out of their company's income so far.

A.Politician.

B.Criminal.

C.Saleswoman.

D.Author.