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Computers in my life — Компьютеры в моей жизни (1)

Computer addicts are the minority of computer users but there is no doubt that more and more young people are computer literate. Computer studies is a subject in many schools and many young people have personal computers. About one in three hundred computer owners spend almost all their time using computers.
Ninety six per cent of them are males of all ages. All of them spend an average of twenty hours per week on home computers. The majority of the adults also use computers at work. All the computer addicts are very intelligent. They have been interested in science and technology from a very early age and they are usually very shy people who like being alone.
A survey in a school showed that fewer girls are interested in computers because girls are less likely to have a computer. Even if they have one, they use then less frequently than boys. Possibly it is because we think of computers as something to do with maths and science, which are traditionally ‘male’

subjects. Possibly it is because most of the computer teachers are men, who give the girls less attention. Possibly parents think it is less important for girls to have computer skills.
Computer addicts are usually very shy people. Using computers gives them confidence. They love debugging and solving problems, develop programs and love learning programming languages. They learnt to communicate with other users through computer networks and the people they met in school and work think of them as experts who could help and advise when they had problems with their machines. A few spend their time ‘hacking’ and one addict left a message on a computer of Buckingham House. Very few computer addicts play computer games, but many people use a computer exclusively for games.
Some parents worry about computer games because they think their children won’t be able to communicate with real people in the real world. But parents do not need to worry. According to research computer addicts usually do well after they have left school. Parents also do not need to worry that computer addiction will make their children
become unfriendly and unable to communicate with people.
It is not the computer that makes them shy. In fact, what they know about computers improves their social lives. They become experts and others come to them for help and advice.
For most children computer games are a craze. Like any other craze, such as skate-boarding, the craze is short-lived. It provides harmless fun and a chance to escape.
If we didn’t have these computer addicts, we wouldn’t have modern technology. They are the inventors of tomorrow.

Компьютеры в моей жизни (1)

Люди, отдающие все свое время компьютерам, составляют меньшинство пользователей компьютерами, но нет сомнения, что все больше молодых людей хорошо разбираются в компьютерах. Информатика — предмет, который изучают во многих школах, и многие молодые люди имеют персональные компьютеры. Приблизительно один из трехсот владельцев компьютеров проводит почти все свое время, работая на компьютере.
Девяносто шесть процентов из них — мужчины всех возрастов. Все они проводят в среднем двадцать часов в неделю за домашними компьютерами. Большинство взрослых людей также использует компьютеры на работе. Все «компьютерные наркоманы» очень умны. Они интересуются наукой и техникой с очень раннего возраста, и они обычно очень застенчивые люди, которым нравится проводить время в одиночестве.
Опрос в школе показал, что девочки менее интересуются компьютерами, потому что менее вероятно, что у девочек он есть. Даже если компьютер у них есть, используют они его реже, чем мальчики. Возможно, это потому, что мы рассматриваем компьютеры как что-то связанное с математикой и наукой, а они являются традиционно «мужскими» предметами. Возможно, это происходит потому, что большинство преподавателей информатики — мужчины, которые уделяют девочкам меньше внимания. Возможно, родители думают, что для девочек менее важно иметь компьютерные навыки.
Люди, увлеченные компьютерами, — обычно очень застенчивые люди. Компьютеры дают им уверенность. Они любят устранять неисправности и решать проблемы, разрабатывать программы и любят изучать языки программирования. Они научились общаться с другими пользователями через компьютерные сети, и люди в школе и на работе считают их экспертами, которые могут помочь и дать совет, когда у них есть проблемы с их машинами. Некоторые из них тратят время на хакерство — так, один заядлый любитель оставил сообщение на компьютере Букингемского Дворца. Очень немногие заядлые любители компьютеров играют в игры, но многие люди пользуются компьютером исключительно для игр.
Некоторых родителей волнуют компьютерные игры потому, что они думают, что их дети не смогут общаться с реальными людьми в реальном мире. Но у родителей нет основания для волнения. Согласно исследованию заядлые любители компьютера обычно преуспевают, после того как они заканчивают школу. Родителей также не должно волновать, что склонность к компьютерам сделает их детей недружелюбными и неспособными общаться с людьми.
Вовсе не компьютер делает их застенчивыми. На самом деле то, что они знают о компьютерах, улучшает их социальную жизнь. Они становятся экспертами, и другие приходят к ним за помощью и советом.
Для большинства детей компьютерные игры — это повальное увлечение. Подобно любому другому повальному увлечению, такому, как катание на скейтборде, оно длится недолго. Оно предоставляет безопасную забаву и шанс уйти от реальности.
Если бы у нас не было людей, увлеченных компьютерами, у нас не было бы современной технологии. Они — изобретатели завтрашнего дня.

Questions:

1. What are computer addicts like?
2. Have you ever used a computer?
3. Why are computers used?
4. Why are more boys than girls interested in computers?
5. Is computer addiction harmful?
6. Do you use computers at school/university/work? What do you use them for?
7. Would you say you are computer-literate? Why?

Vocabulary:

Addict — сильно увлеченный чем-либо, наркоман
minority — меньшинство
owner — владелец
male — мужчина; мужской
average — средний
majority — большинство
survey — исследование, обзор, опрос
confidence — уверенность
debugging — finding and removing problems in computers and computer programs; отладка (программы); наладка (машины или механизма); устранение неполадок, устранение неисправностей
‘hacking’ — gaining acess to computers when it is not allowed
to do well — преуспевать

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