晚练册 第2周-【晨读晚记】2023-2024学年高二上学期英语阅读强化训练

Week Two 第2周■ 晚练 的阅读理解A 原创 It was the day of my daughter's performance in 2019.She'd been practicing her song again and again.As I was getting ready to leave,a Twitter conversation was on my mind.So before I started the car I hurriedly pulled Twitter up on my phone,checked my mentions and replied.No big deal.Yet those few minutes ended up mak- ing me a few minutes later than I would have been.I entered the auditorium at my daughter's school moments after her class finished their song.I recall nothing about that conversation on Twitter.But I will never forget that crestfallen look on my daughter's face. Over a year later,I still hadn't quit Twitter.I told myself I had to stay on social media for my writing career, that I had a civic duty to be in the so-called digital town square.What I wasn't facing was how much of an ad- diction.online social interaction had become for me.I was either scrolling or tweeting multiple times a day and gave up sleep for it.It is embarrassing to admit.So in 2021,friends encouraged me to take more extreme steps. I now use the software to block Twitter.I still maintain an account.But I think social media leads to spikes in depression and anxiety.I believed these things even when I was on Twitter every day,but I felt trapped.I used to say that I was staying on Twitter to try to make a difference there.I thought that I could be the change I wanted to see on the Internet.What I've realized,though,is that the main change I want to see on the Internet is for people to have a weak online presence.This has been the big revelation for me,one so obvious that I'd missed it for years. American society could learn from the Amish.They do not,despite popular belief,refuse to use technology.If a technology may distance people from one another,weaken a sense of in-person community, or harm vulnerable people,they avoid it.They remind us that there are higher goods that can be harmed by technology and that these must be defended,even at a cost. Why does th