Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors by going to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店).Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially【小题1】 they lack health insurance. Or they may stay away because they find it【小题2】(embarrass) to discuss their weight, smoking, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative 【小题3】 (experience) in the past. But【小题4】(play) doctor can also be a deadly game.

Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet【小题5】medical answers--- and most of them aren’t nearly sceptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet &American Life Project found that 72 percent of those【小题6】(survey) believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t look up “headache” and the chances of finding 【小题7】(rely) and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain,【小题8】 (be) only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous【小题9】 (inform) exists on the Internet.

The problem is most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative ( 权威的)，so it’s hard to know if what you’re reading is 【小题10】(reason) or not,” says Dr.Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

Consensus about screens(硅谷精英禁子女玩手机)

The people 【小题1】are   【小题2】(close) to a thing are often the most wary (警惕的)of it. 【小题3】(Technology) know how phones really work, and many have decided they don't want their own children anywhere near them. 【小题4】wariness that has been slowly brewing is turning into a regionwide consensus in Silicon Valley: The benefits of screens 【小题5】a learning tool 【小题6】(overblow), and the risks for addiction and stunting development seem high. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, said earlier this year that he would not let his nephew join social networks. Bill Gates 【小题7】(ban) cellphones until his children were teenagers. "On the scale between candy and crack cocaine,   【小题8】 is closer to crack cocaine," Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired, said of screens. "We thought we could control it. 【小题9】it's beyond our power 【小题10】(control). This is going straight to the pleasure centers of the developing brain."

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. 【小题1】 connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People 【小题2】 （influence） to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people 【小题3】 （describe） their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time 【小题4】 （resist） the temptation of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. I see people 【小题5】 （trap）in a pathological （病态的） relationship with time-consuming technology,【小题6】 they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude（奴役）. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence 【小题7】 uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what we need to ask 【小题8】 if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about the use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.” 【小题9】 it's time to discover today's overused technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies,” To break the grand digital connection, people must consider 【小题10】 life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused technology.