2023年12月·第3套 英语四级长篇阅读（信息匹配） 第 1 篇 · 36–45 题答案与解析

Indeed, social scientists who study young people have found that their digital use can be inventive and even beneficial. This is true not just in terms of their social lives, but their education too.

事实上，研究年轻人的社会科学家发现，他们的数字使用可以富有创造性、甚至有益。这不仅体现在他们的社交生活上，也体现在他们的教育上。

And studies show that pupils don't fact-check information online—"smart searching" is a skill schools need to teach urgently.

研究还显示，学生不会核查网上信息——智能搜索是学校亟需教授的一项技能。

But even as error rates stayed stable, student essays have blossomed in size and complexity. They are now six times longer and, unlike older "what I did this summer" essays, they offer arguments supported by evidence.

但即便错误率保持稳定，学生的论文在篇幅和复杂度上却大大提升。它们如今长达六倍，而且不同于以往那种我的暑假之类的作文，它们能用证据支撑论点。

But even when these accounts touch on real concerns, they do not really reflect the great mass of everyday teenage social behaviour: the online chat, the texting, the surfing, and the emergence of a new teenage sphere that is conducted digitally.

但即便这些报道触及真实的担忧，它们也并未真正反映绝大多数青少年的日常社交行为：在线聊天、发短信、上网冲浪，以及一个以数字方式进行的新青少年领域的兴起。

Rebecca Eynon argues that it's key to model good behaviour. Parents who stare non-stop at their phones and don't read books are likely to breed kids who will do the same. As ever, we ought to be careful about our own behaviour.

Rebecca Eynon 认为以身作则至关重要。整天盯着手机、不读书的家长，很可能养出同样的孩子。一如既往，我们应当注意自己的行为。

Parents are wrong to worry that kids don't care about privacy. In fact, they spend hours changing Facebook settings or using quick-delete sharing tools, such as Snapchat, to minimise their traces.

家长担心孩子不在乎隐私，这是错的。事实上，他们花数小时更改 Facebook 设置，或使用阅后即删的分享工具（如 Snapchat），以尽量减少自己留下的痕迹。

Clearly, teaching teens formal writing is still crucial, but texting probably isn't destroying their ability to learn it.

显然，教青少年正式写作仍然至关重要，但发短信大概并未毁掉他们学习它的能力。

New technologies always provoke generational panic, which usually has more to do with adult fears than with the lives of teenagers.

新技术总是引发代际恐慌，这通常更多与成人的恐惧有关，而非与青少年的生活有关。

But even back then, a minority of people—perhaps 20%—were lifelong heavy readers, and it was cable TV not the internet, that struck a blow at that culture in the 1980s.

但即便那时，也只有少数人——也许 20%——是终身的重度读者，而真正打击那种文化的是有线电视而非互联网，发生在上世纪八十年代。

They say that kids use overly casual language and text-speak in writing, and don't have as much patience for long reading and complex arguments.

他们说孩子写作时使用过于随意的语言和网络用语，对长篇阅读和复杂论证也没有那么多耐心。