2020年6月英语四级作文练习题：晕屏症

　　随着智能时代的到来，越来越多的人不自觉的成为了新科技的奴隶，智能手机的使用尤能说明这一点。无论是上下班的路上，还是赋闲在家，无论是休闲娱乐，还是聊天购物，智能手机总是与我们形影不离，对于智能手机带给人们的便利之处我们不可否认，但是其弊端也日益显现，看看“低头族”“僵尸族”这些网络热词吧，从中我们不难发现无时无刻使用智能手机给我们造成的危害，但这些危害常常为沉迷于智能手机的人们所忽略。分析利弊，是四六级考试中写作部分的关键，只知其利，不知其弊，也不是一篇完美的作文。下面我们就来分享一篇文章——刷屏刷到吐你得“晕屏症”了(Do you suffer from cybersickness It causes nausea while scrolling on phones)，认识到智能手机可能会带给我们的危害，希望它能警醒我们，让我们能够更加合理的使用智能手机。

　　晕屏症—Cybersickness

　　【原文】

　　The rise of mobile phones has been blamed for anumber of social ills, but your smart phone mayalso be making you physically sick as well. Scientistshave identified a condition called “cybersickness”, which they say is the digital version of motionsickness. The phenomenon, which affects up to 80 percent of the population who own smartphones or tablets, leads to feelings of nausea andunsteadiness. It is caused by seeing fast motion on a screen and covers anything from a carchase in a film to scrolling through web pages on your phone. The more realistic the visualcontent is, the higher your chances of getting cybersickness. The condition was identified in apiece in the New York Times in which British and US experts said that it needed addressing. Cyriel Diels, a cognitive psychologist and human factors researcher at Coventry University’scentre for Mobility and Transport, said: “It’s a fundamental problem that’s kind of been sweptunder the carpet in the tech industry.” “It’s a natural response to an unnatural environment.” Motion sickness leaves sufferers feeling ill because they feel movement in your muscles andyour inner ear but do not see it. The mismatch in digital sickness is the opposite—you seemovement on the screen but do not feel it. The effect is the same and the symptoms includea headache, wanting to throw up, confusion and the need to sit down. Often cybersicknessmanifests itself in a subtle way and sufferers put it down to stress or eyestrain.Steven Rauch, a professor of otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, said: “Your sense of balance isdifferent than other senses in that it has lots of inputs.” When those inputs don’t agree, that’swhen you feel dizziness and nausea “Some studies that have been carried out intocybersickness found that women are more susceptible than men, the New York Timesreported. Those who have Type A’ personalities—meaning they are confident and assertive—are more likely to suffer from cybersickness as well. Among those who have reportedexperiencing the condition have been video gamers who spend hours playing fast paced games. Cinema-goers have struggled with some scenes in action movies which have quick cuts and fastediting—and virtual reality has made the problem even worse. Jonathan Weinstein, a professorat the Kanbar Institute for Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, said: “The idea is to get audiences to feel like participants in the action rather than outsideobservers of the action. Engineers at Oculus VR, the virtual headset manufacturer, haveadmitted that digital motion sickness is one of their biggest problems.

　　【词汇积累】

　　cybersickness 晕屏症

　　scrolling on phone 刷屏

　　smartphones 智能手机

　　tablets 平板

　　nausea 眩晕，恶心

　　sweep sth. Under the carpet 掩盖错误

　　susceptible 易受影响的