Are you a couch potato or a mouse potato?
Pototaes are vegetables and many people like to eat them.A couch is a sofa that people sit on to watch TV or to rest.Butif others call you "couch potato",it means you like to sit on the couch and watch TV all day long.You usually sit on the coach,eat snacks and your eyes are always on the TV screen.It's very bad for your health.American artist Robert Armstrong first said it in 1976 and it became very popular soon.
Later in 1993,American writer Alice Kahn made up anoth phrase,"mouse potato"A mouse is a part of a computer,so she used the phrase to descirbe people who spend a lot of time using computers.As computers are becoming common in our life,so now there are more and more"mouse potatoes".Are you one of them?If you are,remember too much time in front of a computer is not good for your health.
土豆是一種蔬菜,很多人都喜歡吃.沙發(fā)就是人們坐著看電視或休息的家具.但是如果其他人叫你“couch potato”,那就意味著你喜歡整日坐在沙發(fā)上看電視.你常坐在沙發(fā)上,吃著零食,眼睛一直盯著電視屏幕,這樣對你的身體健康很有害.美國藝術(shù)家羅伯特·阿姆斯特朗于1976年首次使用了這個詞,不久它就被人們廣泛使用.
后來在1993年,美國作家愛麗絲·卡恩創(chuàng)造出了另一個詞“mouse potato”.鼠標(biāo)是電腦的一部分,所以他用此來描述那些將大量時間花費在電腦上的人們.隨著電腦在我們生活里的普及,現(xiàn)在“電腦迷”越來越多,你是其中的一員嗎?如果是的話,記住在電腦前呆的時間過長對你的健康不利.
【Task for you】
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容判斷正誤,正確的寫“T”,錯誤的寫“F”.
（ ）1.Potatoes are bad for us.
( )2.It's not bad to be a "couch potato"
( )3.A "mouse potato" is a person who spends too much time usong a s computer.