24. After spending 40 hours playing the online game King of Glory, a 17-year-old middle school student in Guangdong Province had a stroke (中风) and nearly died in April, 2017. It shows how bad things can happen if one becomes addicted to (沉迷于) the Internet. In fact, among China's 772 million Internet users, about 151 million of them are between the ages of 10 and 19. To stop it, the government has called on parents and schools to monitor (监督) students' use of Internet and mobile phones. But it helps little because teenagers are addicted to the Internet so much that they don't want to stop it at all. Henry, a reporter from Guangdong News of People
Zombies (僵尸) are real! You meet them every day on the sidewalk (人行道). They walk slowly, their heads are down, looking at their mobile phones, and they will not look at you. They are living in a different world, a world of mobile phones! So people call them Mobile zombies. Now more and more people are complaining (抱怨) about these Mobile zombies because they walk slowly, making it difficult for other people to use the sidewalk. Do you have any suggestionsfor us?
I have a happy family. But now I have a serious problem — the Internet problem. My little son, Jason, is just fifteen. I think he should do a lot of homework at his age, but he doesn't seem to be interested in it. Now he hardly does his lessons at home. I have tried to talk to him about this problem, but it didn't work. He can happily spend much time on the Internet every day. He chats with people that he has never met before, but speaks little to me. And he will be angry if I ask him to do his homework. I wonder why the Internet is so interesting. Please tell me what I can do! ——Rebecca, a worried mother