distances英语每日一听

2021年1月7日发(作者：蔡诚)
2017
中考真题阅读
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It was already 8:30 in the morning. Lin Tao, a 14-year-old schoolboy,
still didn’t show up at school. He was often late for school ! The teacher
called his father and got to know he played computer games online late
the night before and couldn’t get up that morning. In fact, he had played
online games since the age of 11. He almost dropped out of school last
year.
Lin Tao is not alone. Information from China Internet Center shows
that the number of teenage Internet users in China had been about 170
million by the end of December, 2016. Many of them, like Lin Tao, spend
too much time playing computer games online.
To deal with this problem, the Chinese government worked out a
draft regulation (
法规草案
) in January this year. According to the
regulation, players need to use their own ID cards to play online games.
Game companies will control teenagers’ online game time. They will not
be able to play online games between 12:00 at night and 8:00 in the
morning. If they are still playing during the time, the game companies
will lock them out.
Many people think that the regulation can surely better protect
Chinese young game players online, while others doubt whether it can
successful stop them from playing games too much. “More and more
people come to know that playing online games too much not only brings