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  3. In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depres

In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depres

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问题     In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a " disease of affluence," a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world. People who live in poorer countries have a lower risk of depression than those in industrialized nations. In general, countries with lifestyles that are furthest removed from modern standards have the lowest rates of depression.
    Within the U. S. , the rate of depression of members of the Old Order Amish—a religious group that shuns modernity in favor of lifestyles roughly imitating those of rural Americans a century ago—is as low as one 10th that of other Americans. Psychologist Martin Seligman, originator of the field of positive psychology and director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, has studied the Old Order Amish, along with other pre-modern cultures. He concludes: "Putting this together, there seems to be something about modern life that creates fertile soil for depression. "
    Another prominent researcher, Stephen Ilardi, professor of psychology at the University of Kansas and author of The Depression Cure, observes, "The more ’ modern’ a society’s way of life, the higher its rate of depression. It may seem baffling, but the explanation is simple: the human body was never designed for the modern postindustrial environment. "
    More and more of us spend most of our time indoors. We eat industrial food much altered from its natural sources, and there is reason for concern about how our changed eating habits are affecting our brain activity and our moods. We are deluged by an unprecedented overload of information and stimulation in this age of the Internet, email, mobile phones, and multimedia, all of which favor social isolation and certainly affect our emotional and physical health. This kind of life simply was not an option throughout most of human history, as there was no infrastructure to support it, much less require it.
    Human beings evolved to thrive in natural environments and in bonded social groups. Few of us today can enjoy such a life and the emotional equilibrium it engenders, but our genetic predisposition for it has not changed. The term " nature-deficit disorder" has recently entered the popular vocabulary.It was coined by the author Richard Louv to explain a wide range of behavior problems in children who spend less time outdoors but now is invoked as the root cause of an even wider range of both physical and emotional ailments in people of all ages who are disconnected from nature.
    I believe we are gathering scientific evidence for the benefits of living close to nature, not simply for enjoying its beauty or getting spiritual sustenance but for keeping our brains and nervous systems in good working order.
The author explains the cause for depression from______perspective.
选项 A、evolutionary
B、psychological
C、medical
D、ethnical
答案A
解析 文章开篇即点明作者观点，抑郁症和现代生活方式息息相关。那为什么现代化工业化的生活方式就会诱发抑郁症呢?作者在第三段中借用著名学者史蒂芬.伊拉迪的语句回答了这一问题，因为“人的身体生来就与现代后工业化的环境格格不入”。接着在第四段和第五段中，作者具体论述了这一点，因为人类千百年的基因遗传决定了人类是需要群居，需要亲近自然的动物，而现代的生活方式恰恰剥离了人类的这种属性，因此才会引起心理上的疾病。因此，作者是从生物进化的角度揭示了抑郁症产生的原因，正确答案选[A]。
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