VOA慢速英语听力 ECONOMICS REPORT（WORD文本）：0129A.doc

1、标题：voa慢速英语讲解附字幕:美国年轻人媒体使用量增加对应音频：0129a.mp3听力内容：For Youths in US, a Jump in Media UseThis is the VOA Special English Economics Report.American children and teenagers have increased their use of entertainment media by more than one hour a day in the last five years. On an average day they now spend se

2、ven and a half hours using media.These are the findings of a new survey. It included devices like TVs, computers, mobile phones and MP3 players, but also media like books and magazines. It did not count media use for school.Vicky Rideout at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health research group, wrot

3、e the report. She was surprised that kids could fit even more media time into their day.She found that they spent ten hours and forty-five minutes if you counted each device individually. But children multi-task a lot, and Vicky Rideout says this is not necessarily a good thing.VICKY RIDEOUT: People

4、 who study the brain will tell you that you cant actually multi-task in that way. Youre really switching back and forth sequentially from different tasks, just doing it rapidly, and that you dont really do either task as well as you would do them if you did them one at a time.The study suggests a li

5、nk between heavy media use and lower performance in school. About one-fourth of those who used media the least reported that their grades were mostly average or below. But that was true of half the heavy media users.So where are the parents? Children who had any rule limiting the use of any kind of

6、media were exposed to an average of about three hours less media a day. But only one-third of children had to follow any rules.Girls spent more time than boys on social networking sites, listening to music and reading. Boys spent more time on video games - an average of forty-eight minutes more a da

7、y than girls.VICKY RIDEOUT: It looks like the girls just sort of lose interest in the games and they drop off and start doing other things, whereas the boys interest remains strong.Some other findings: Time spent reading books has not dropped in the last five years. But time with newspapers and maga

8、zines has, though some reading now takes place online.Blacks and Hispanics use media over four hours more a day than other groups. And for all children, media use appears to reach its highest point between the ages of eleven and fourteen. Vicky Rideout will try to explain these findings in future re

9、search.The report is based on more than two thousand students ages eight to eighteen. They took a written survey in class through May of last year.这里是VOA特别英语经济报道。过去五年，美国的孩子和青少年每天使用娱乐媒介的时间增加了超过一个小时。现在，他们平均每天7.5个小时在使用媒体。这是一项最新调查的结果。包括电视机，电脑，手机和MP3等设备，还包括书籍和杂志等媒介，但是并不包括教学多媒体在内。健康研究组织凯泽家族基金会(Kaiser Fami

10、ly Foundation)的Vicky Rideout撰写了这份报告。她感到很惊讶，孩子们在日常生活中可能花费更多的时间在媒体方面。她发现，如果对每种设备进行单独计算，他们每天可以在媒体上花费10小时45分钟。但是孩子们通常同时进行多重任务。Vicky Rideout 表示，这未必是一件好事。Vicky Rideout“大脑研究专家会告诉你，你不可能同时进行多项工作。实际上，你按照顺序不停地在不同任务之间迅速切换，实际上，你不可能像每个时间单独完成一件任务做的那样好。”研究表明，媒体的大量使用和学校表现变差之间存在联系。使用媒体最少的人中有四分之一的人报告自己的成绩与平均水平持平或低于平均水

11、平。但是大量使用媒体的人则有一半的学生如此。那么，他们的父母在哪里呢？有某种规则限制任何媒体使用的孩子每天使用媒体的时间低于三小时。但是只有三分之一的孩子受到某种规则的约束。女孩比男孩花费更多的时间浏览社交网站，听音乐和读书。男孩子则花费更多的时间玩视频游戏——平均每天比女孩子多48分钟。VICKY RIDEOUT：“看上去似乎女孩子们开始对游戏失去兴趣，她们开始减少玩游戏的时间，开始做其他事情。而男孩子玩游戏的兴趣依然非常强烈。”这项研究的其他发现：过去五年孩子们花费在读书方面的时间并没有减少。但是读报纸和杂志的时间减少，尽管有一些阅读现在在网络上进行。黑人和拉美裔人

12、每天使用媒体的时间比其他人群多四个小时。对所有孩子来说，11至14岁的孩子的媒体使用量达到最高点。Vicky Rideout 将在今后的研究中对这些发现进行解释。这份报告基于对2000多名8岁至18岁的学生的调查。去年的5月份期间，他们接受了课堂书面调查。1.count v.计数;认为,看作;算入在本文中的意思相当于take into account 考虑到，顾及到例句：There are four points to take into account here. 这里有四条要点需要考虑。2.individually ad.以个人身分,各个地,个别地例句：The surgeon tied o

13、ff each bleeding vessel individually.外科医生把血管一根一根地结扎起来。The example is too numerous to mention individually.例子不胜枚举。3.multi-task v.同时进行多项任务4.switch v.转换,变换,摆动例句：We decided to switch directions along the way. 我们决定在途中改变路线。5.sequentially ad.继续地,从而,按照顺序地6.mostly ad.大概,大部分,主要例句：Pop music is mostly program music.流行音乐大多是标题音乐。7.whereas conj.然而,反之,鉴于例句：She is slender, whereas he is stout. 她很瘦弱，而他却又粗又壮。They tend to leave a day early for meetings, whereas I tend to take a faster train! 考虑到我想乘的是快车，他们倾向于提前一天出发去开会。