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  3. [A] There are a number of explanations for our boredom. This, in fact, is part of the problem—we are overetimulated. The more en

[A] There are a number of explanations for our boredom. This, in fact, is part of the problem—we are overetimulated. The more en

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问题    [A] There are a number of explanations for our boredom. This, in fact, is part of the problem—we are overetimulated. The more entertained we are, the more entertainment we need in order to feel satisfied. The more we fill our world with fast-moving, high-intensity, ever-changing stimulation, the more we get used to that and the less tolerant we become of lower levels. Thus slower-paced activities, such as reading reports, sitting in meetings, attending lectures or studying for exams, bore us because we are accustomed to faster-paced amusements.
   [B] Our increasing reliance on screentime is also to blame. Although we seem to live in a varied and exciting world with a wealth of entertainment at our fingertips, this is actually the problem. Many of these amusements are obtained in remarkably similar ways—via our fingers. We spend much of our work life now tapping away at our keyboard. We then look for stimulation (watching movies, reading books, catching the news, interacting with friends) via the Internet or our phone, which means more tapping. On average we spend six to seven hours in front of our phone, tablet, computer and TV screens every day.
   [C] Does any of this matter? Research suggests that chronic boredom is responsible for a profusion of negative outcomes such as overeating, gambling, truancy, antisocial behaviour, drug use, accidents, risk taking and much more. We need less, not more, stimulation and novelty. It seems paradoxical, but feeling bored in the short term will make us less bored in the long term.
   [D] Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish (eight seconds). We are hardwired to seek novelty, which produces a hit of dopamine, that feel-good chemical, in our brains. As soon as a new stimulus is noticed, however, it is no longer new, and after a while it bores us. To get that same pleasurable dopamine hit we seek fresh sources of distraction.
   [E] All these are simply becoming boring. Instead of performing varied activities that engage different neural systems (sport, knitting, painting, cooking, etc) to relieve our tedium, we fall back on the same screen-tapping schema for much of our day. The irony is that while our mobile devices should allow us to fill every moment, our means of obtaining that entertainment has become so repetitive and routine that it’s a source of boredom in itself.
   [F] It amazes me when people proclaim that they are bored. Actually, it amazes me that I am ever bored, or that any of us are. With so much to occupy us these days, boredom should be a relic of a bygone age—an age devoid of the Internet, Social media, multi-channel TV, 24-hour shopping, multiplex cinemas, game consoles, texting and whatever other myriad possibilities are available these days to entertain us.
   [G] Yet despite the plethora of high-intensity entertainment constantly at our disposal, we are still bored. Up to half of us are "often bored" at home or at school, while more than two thirds of us are chronically bored at work. We are bored by paperwork, by the commute and by dull meetings. TV is boring, as is Facebook and other social media. We spend our weekends at dull parties, watching tedious films or listening to our spouses drone on about their day. Our kids are bored—bored of school, of homework and even of school holidays.
   
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答案A
解析 本题在G和D之间。G罗列出生活中让人们感到无聊的各种事情，依然是“我们感到无聊”这个现象的说明。D指出我们持续对某样事物感到新奇的时间很短。因而我们总是不断寻找新奇和刺激以维持大脑中多巴胺所带来的愉悦感。D属于原因分析，是我们之所以很容易感到无聊的生理原因。可见G和D之间的段落应该要么继续介绍上文所讲的现象，要么开始探究该现象的原因。剩下的选项都没有关于这个现象的介绍，而谈论原因的则有A、B和E。B首句的also提示上文还有介绍其他原因的段落；E和B都谈及屏幕类电子用品，两段应为相邻段落，故均排除。A首句提到很多原因能解释我们为什么感到无聊(a number of explanations for our boredom)，接着集中分析其中一个原因，显然该段应该是开始进入原因分析的段落，其首句起到总起作用。故本题选A。
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