For questions 25-32, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence.
Mark your answer on the answer sheet.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Is it too late to unplug?
What does it take to tune out and turn off your laptop or your smart phone? Has high-speed internet made you impatient with slow-speed parents? Do you sometimes think about reaching for the fast-forward button, only to realise that life does not come with a remote (0) control? If you answered yes to any of these questions, exposure to technology
be reshaping your personality. Some experts believe excessive use of the internet, cell phones and other technologies
us more impatient, impulsive and forgetful. 'Life is beginning to resemble the chat room,' says E. Aboujaoude, director of the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic
Stanford University. 'We're paying a price
terms of our cognitive life because of this virtual lifestyle. Some studies suggest that over-dependence on our devices is
to an addiction.' There are self-assessment tests to determine if technology has become a drug. Among the questions used to identify
at risk are: Do you neglect homework to spend time online? Are you constantly checking your email? Do you often
sleep because you log in late at night? If you answered often or always, technology may be
its toll on you. It may be that online technology is changing the core of who we are. Dr Aboujaoude explores these issues in his book Virtually You: The Internet and the Fracturing of the Self.
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