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Excessive Demands on Young People

Being able to multitask is hailed by most people as a welcome skill, but not according to a recent study which claims that young people between the ages of eight and eighteen of the so-called Generation M are spending a considerable amount of their time in fruitless efforts as they multitask. It argues that, in fact, these young people are frittering away as much as half of their time again as they would if they performed the very same tasks one after the other.
Some young people are juggling an ever larger number of electronic devices as they study. At the same time that they are working, young adults are also surfing on the Internet, or sending out emails to their friends, and/or answering the telephone and listening to music on their iPods or on another computer. As some new device comes along it too is added to the list rather than replacing one of the existing devices.
Other research has indicated that this multitasking is even affecting the way families themselves function as young people are too wrapped up in their own isolated worlds to interact with the other people around them. They can no longer greet family members when they enter the house nor can they eat at the family table.
All this electronic wizardry is supposedly also seriously affecting young people's performance at university and in the workplace. When asked about their perception of the impact of modern gadgets on their performance of tasks, the overwhelming majority of young people gave a favorable response.
The response from the academic and business worlds was not quite as positive. The former feel that multitasking with electronic gadgets by children affects later development of study skills, resulting in a decline in the quality of writing, for example, because of the lack of concentration on task completion. They feel that many undergraduates now urgently need remedial help with study skills. Similarly, employers feel that young people entering the workforce need to be taught all over again, as they have become deskilled.
While all this may be true, it must be borne in mind that more and more is expected of young people nowadays; in fact, too much. Praise rather than criticism is due in respect of the way today's youth are able to cope despite what the older generation throw at them.

单选题 According to a recent study, what is probably true about the multitasking Generation M?

单选题 With the advent of new gadgets, what will happen to Generation M's present e-devices?

单选题 How will multitasking affect Generation M adversely?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】答案A是文字游戏，原文中。isolated worlds应该理解为孤立的世界，即独自(alone)，而不是孤独(lonely)。答案C说他们变得自私和占有欲强，想买更多电子产品，显然不对。答案D说他们变得不懂礼貌和不知感恩，均是对第三段最后一句话中的no longer greet和nor can they eat at the family table的字面理解。答案B是两个近义词，重点在性格变化上，变得“若即若离、难以捉摸”。

单选题 What is the biggest problem for multitasking undergraduates in universities?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】答案A认为是态度问题，把客观问题主观化。答案B是误导选项，试图用remedial help误导大家联想到remedy一词，故引出psychological professional的曲解。答案C把第五段第一句中的later development和decline in the quality of...表象化，认为应该抓紧赶上同学(catch up)。答案D才是正确答案，问题症结在于multitasking难以让人集中注意力，造成浪费时间、影响表现等后果，这些前文均已提过。