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“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”

“I often check my e?mail forty times a day.”

“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”

“I spend more time in chat by mobile than with my‘real lifefriends.”

Do you know any people like these？ They are part of a new addiction （瘾） called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. People lose control （控制） of the time they spend on the Internet.

For example， one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried， and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab： he was surfing the net for several  days straight.

Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and  family.

Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you？ You may have a problem if you have these symptoms（症状）：

·You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the  Internet.

·You cant wait for your next online time.

·You plan to spend a short time online， but then you spend several  hours.

·You go out with your friends less and less.

1. What does the beginning of the passage tell us？

A. How to become an Internet addict. B. What an Internet addict usually does.

C. Where to find an Internet addict. D. Why to write this passage.

2. How does the writer describe the addicts use of Internet？

A. It is something like keeping drugs. B. It is a way of producing drugs.

C. It is like taking drugs. D. It is terrible to imagine.

Keys： BC