2013年12月英语四级作文真题附范文(第2套):手机

作者词汇表达丰富灵活，高级词汇使用也较熟练，要注意避免个别拼写错误；句法方面做得很棒，但是从句不多；文章结构严谨，有效地使用了语句间的衔接成分。

From my prospective, I hold the attitude that we're more connected than before, but we're feeling more alone. As we all know, our little devices, those little devices in our pockets, are so psychologically powerful that they don't only change what we do, they change who we are. However, the truth is that we're letting them take us places that we don't want to go. There are some examples for this. People text or do email during corporate board meetings. They text and shop and go on Facebook during classes, during presentations, actually during all meetings. What's more, parents text and do email at breakfast and at dinner while their children complain about not having their parents' full attention. But then these same childrendeny each other their full attention. Nowadays, those phones in our pockets are changing our minds and hearts because they offer us three gratifying fantasies. First, we can put our attention wherever we want it to be. Second, we will always be heard, and three, that we will never have to be alone. And the third idea, we will never have to be alone, is central to changing our psyches. Because the moment that people are alone, even for a few seconds, they become anxious, they panic, they fidget, they reach for a device. Just think of people at a checkout line or at a red light. Being alone feels like a problem that needs to be solved. And so people try to solve it by connecting. But here, connection is more like a symptom than a cure. It expresses, but it doesn't solve, an underlying problem. But more than a symptom, constant connection is changing the way people think of themselves. It's shaping a new way of being. herefore, we're more connected than before, but we're feeling more alone. Fortunately, we can try our best to change this phenomenon.