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 so

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.
土豆是一种蔬菜,很多人都喜欢吃.沙发就是人们坐着看电视或休息的家具.但是如果其他人叫你“couch potato”,那就意味着你喜欢整日坐在沙发上看电视.你常坐在沙发上,吃着零食,眼睛一直盯着电视屏幕,这样对你的身体健康很有害.美国艺术家罗伯特·阿姆斯特朗于1976年首次使用了这个词,不久它就被人们广泛使用.
后来在1993年,美国作家爱丽丝·卡恩创造出了另一个词“mouse potato”.鼠标是电脑的一部分,所以他用此来描述那些将大量时间花费在电脑上的人们.随着电脑在我们生活里的普及,现在“电脑迷”越来越多,你是其中的一员吗?如果是的话,记住在电脑前呆的时间过长对你的健康不利.
【Task for you】
根据短文内容判断正误,正确的写“T”,错误的写“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.