1、      Bobks are not Nadia Konyk's thing.  Her mother, hoping to 21 her, brings home many colourful and interesting books from the library, but Nadia 22 shows an interest.  Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15 years old, is addicted to the 23 .  She regularly spends at least six  hours a day in front of the computer.

      Nadia checks her e-mails and reads carefully through myyearbook. com, reading messages or 24 updates on her personal space on her mood.  She searches for music videos on youtube. com and logs onto gaiaonline. com, a role-playing 25 where members exchange identities as cartoon characters.

   But she spends most of her time on quizilla. com or fanfiction. net, reading and commenting on stories written by other users.

   Her mother, Deborah Konyk, would prefer that Nadia read books for a 26 , but at this point Ms.   Konyk said, "I，m just pleased that she reads something anyway. "Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age.  As teenagers' scores on standardized reading tests have 27 , some argue that the hours  spent surfing the Internet is the enemy of reading ----reducing literacy, destroying attention spans and a 28 common culture that exists only through reading books.

    But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should  not 29 .  The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might 30 spend most of his leisure time watching television, to read and write.