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In the past fifty years, American society has changed a great deal. Fifty years ago, most Americans lived in small communities.

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问题      In the past fifty years, American society has changed a great deal. Fifty years ago, most Americans lived in small communities. They rarely moved from one area to another and knew their neighbors at least by name if not by close, personal relations. Life was so personal in those days that people often joked about it.They said that a person could not even stay home from church on Sunday without the whole town knowing about it. It was difficult to keep one’s secret in a small community like that, but there was usually a sense of safety, of belonging, and of community togetherness in such places. Except for church and the local movie theater, there was not much entertainment. Some people dreamed about moving to the exciting life of the big cities, but most people were happy to live all their lives in the same community.
    Few people experience this type of lifelong relationship or sense of community togetherness now. The American society is much more unsettled now; people often move from neighborhood to neighborhood, city to city, and coast to coast. It is rare to find people who have lived all their lives in one community. Because people move so frequently, they do not have a chance to get to know their neighbors. Perhaps this is also why Americans tend to have a more casual attitude about friendships than people from some other cultures; Americans are accustomed to leaving friends and making new friends. In such an impersonal society, people have lost the habit of saying hello to people they pass on the streets or in the hallways of their apartment buildings.
Which of the following is true of the people in small towns many years ago?
选项 A、They used to stay home from church on Sundays.
B、They knew each other well.
C、Most of them prepared to live in big cities.
D、They liked to tell jokes among themselves.
答案B
解析 本题为是非判断题。在第一段中提到“They said that a person could not even stay home from church on Sunday without the whole town knowing about it.”(他们说，一个人不可能星期天待在家里不去教堂而整个镇子的人不知道。)根据常识，我们知道，星期天人们是要上教堂去做礼拜的。因此，A 是不正确的。而 B 是正确的。因为在接下来的文章中提到“It was difficult to keep one’s secret in a small community…”(要在这个小集体中保守秘密，是很困难的……)既然很难有个人隐私，就意味着人们之间相互非常了解。在第一段的最后提到“Some people dreamed about moving to the exciting life of the big cities, but most people were happy to live all their lives in the same community.”(有些人想移居大城市去过令人兴奋的生活，但是，大多数人还是乐意在同一个集体中过一辈子。)表明大多数人还是喜欢生活在他们的小集体中的。因此， C 不正确。第一段中的“…people often joked about it”(……人们常常谈论这个话题，以此为乐。)，与“They liked to tell jokes among themselves.”(他们喜欢在他们之间说笑话。)所表达的意思不一样。因此，D 也不对。
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