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Computer addiction? Probably just modern life...

NEW YORK-A trailer in cinemas for "Stay Alive"- a movie about video gamers dying because they played the wrong game - displays this message across the screen: "There are 100 million gamers in America. One in four is addicted."
Video games and the Internet have been subject to suspicion since the computer became a household fixture. One complaint: people spend enormous amounts of time on the computer, to the detriment of other parts of their life.
But are they addicted?
The answer depends on what you mean by 'addicted'. Most experts say computers are not addictive in the same sense that drugs are, but they could be on the same level as gambling.
"When I started to study Internet addiction more particularly back in 1995, I thought that this could potentially be a major problem," said Professor Mark Griffiths, who studies behavioral addictions at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.
Donna Meyer doesn't think she's addicted, even if she spends up to 12 hours a day in "Second Life", a game-like world on the Internet. The 49-year-old grandmother in New York shares a virtual home with a partner who lives in New Mexico.
"My daughter gets annoyed," Meyer said. She told me: "My God, Mum, you used to go out, now you're always on the computer!"
Mrs Meyer explains: "I'm unemployed, I don't really have the money to go out anymore, so I enjoy this. It's a way of still meeting people."
Jason Ellis, 32, has felt the negative side of computer games, which have cost him one job. "In 1998, when Starcraft came out, I was playing 10 hours a day and trying to work 8 hours a day," said Ellis, who lives in New York. Now, he has pulled back a bit on the games in favor of making music.
Experts believe that computer addiction does happen, if rarely. Robert LaRose, a professor of telecommunications at Michigan State University, has studied the phenomenon among students, and estimates that it happens to a fraction of a percent of users- about the same rate as gambling addiction.
"For the people who can't catch themselves for some reason, there's the possibility of a downward spiral," he said.
Game addiction is probbaly not the only factor, said Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, executive director of NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals.
"If you're not feeling well at home, at work, with your parents, with your friends, or with your family, then you're going to look for love somewhere else," she said. "Human beings need other people."

usatoday.com, February 8th 2006 (adapted)

Vocabulary
to be subject to: faire l'objet de
behavioral: comportemental
to pull back: lever le pied
to catch oneself (ici): se contrôler


A) Répondez en français aux questions suivantes, en utilisant uniquement les informations contenues dans le texte. (9 points).
1.Combien d'amateurs de jeux vidéo dénombre-t-on en Amérique d'après la bande-annonce du film Stay Alive? Quelle est la particularité d'un joueur sur quatre? (1 pt)
2) La dépendance à l'ordinateur se rapproche d'une autre dépendance. Laquelle? (1)
3) Qu'étudie le Professeur Mark griffiths ? (1)
4) A quoi Donna Meyer consacre-t-elle 12 heures par jour? Que fait-elle en particulier? (1 pt)
5) Que reproche la jeune fille de Donna Meyer à sa mère? (1)
6) Indiquez deux raisons données par Mme Meyer pour justifier sa participation à ce jeu. (1)
7) Quelle conséquence la dépendance de Jason Ellis au jeu vidéo "Starcraf" a-t-elle eue? Par quelle activité essaie-til de remplacer la pratique des jeux? (2)
8) D'après Robert LaRose, que risquent les personnes incapables de s'imposer des limites dans leur utilisation de l'ordinateur? (1)

B. Traduction en français (3 points)
de la ligne 33 "If you're not feeling well..." à la ligne 35 "... Human beings need other people."

C. Recopiez le passage suivant en mettant les verbes entre parenthèses à la forme exigée par le contexte. (2 points)
Nowadays, more and more teenagers (spend) too much time on video games without (realize) they are addicted. The phenomenon (start) in the 1990's. In the future, this addiction (become) a real problem.

D. Recopiez le paragraphe suivant et complétez-le à l'aide de modaux choisis dans la liste suivante: (2 points)

must /needn't / shouldn't / could / may / can

Some experts think that teenagers _______ spend too much time on the Internet because it ______ be dangerous. On the contray, others think that online games _______ develop communication and say that parents _____ worry too much.

E. Expression en anglais (4 points)
Vous participez dans votre lycée à une campagne de mise en garde contre les dangers liés à l'utilisation abusive de l'ordinateur.
Proposez au moins quatre slogans en anglais pour illustrer cette campagne.

Critères d'évaluation :
- accomplissement de la tâche : pénalisation des réponses d'une longueur inférieure à la longueur demandée en fonction du degré de non-exécution de la tâche.
- correction grammaticale de la réponse : pénalisation importante en cas d'erreurs grammaticales graves traduisant l'ignorance des mécanismes de base de l'anglais, mais indulgence pour les maladresses et inexactitudes.

Attribution au minimum de trois points en cas de réponse de la longueur souhaitée, sans erreurs grammaticales graves. Note supérieure à 3 si la qualité du travail le justifie.

Attribution au maximum d'un point en cas de réponse comportant 4 erreurs grammaticales graves traduisant l'ignorance des mécanismes de base de l'anglais.

CORRIGE non officiel, rapide - n'oubliez pas de construire des phrases complètes