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To anyone paying attention these days, it’s clear that social media are changing the way we live. Face-to-face chatting is givin

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问题     To anyone paying attention these days, it’s clear that social media are changing the way we live. Face-to-face chatting is giving way to texting and messaging; people even prefer these electronic exchanges to, for instance, simply talking on a phone. Amid these smaller trends, growing research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship Where is all this leading modern-day society? Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic stimuli slowly replace the joys of human contact. Awareness of a possible problem took off just as the online world was emerging. In the United Kingdom, the Mental Health Foundation just published The Lonely Society, which notes that about half of Brits believe they’re living in, well, a lonelier society. One in three would like to live closer to their families, though social trends are forcing them to live farther apart.
    Typically, the pressures of urban life are blamed: In London, a poll had two-fifths of respondents reporting that they face a prevailing drift away from their closest friends. According to work published in the American Sociological Review, the average American has only two close friends, and a quarter don’t have any. Aristotle was just one thinker to remark that if a person didn’t have a good friend, his or her life would be fundamentally lacking. A society that restraints opportunities for deeper sociality, therefore, prevents well-being.
    No single person is at fault, of course. We learn how to make friends—or not—in our most formative years, as children. Recent studies on childhood, and how the contemporary life of the child affects friendships, are illuminating. Again a central conclusion often reached relates to a lack of what is called "unstructured time."
    Structured time results from the way an average day is parceled up for our kids—time for school, time for homework, time for music practice, even time for play. Yet too often today, no period is left unstructured. After all, who these days lets his child just wander off down the street? But that is precisely the kind of leisure time so vital for deeper friendships. It’s then that we simply "hang out"with no tasks, no deadlines and no pressures. It is in those moments that children and adults alike can get to know others for who they are in themselves. Aristotle had an attractive expression to capture the thought: close friends, he observed, "share salt together". It’s not just that they sit together, passing the salt across the meal table. It’s that they sit with one another across the course of their lives, sharing its taste—its moments, bitter and sweet. "The desire for friendship comes quickly; friendship does not," Aristotle also remarked. It’s a key insight for an age of instant social connectivity, though one in which we paradoxically have an apparently growing need to be more deeply connected.
According to Aristotle, the lack of deep friendship influences______.
选项 A、people’s mental condition
B、people’s way of thinking
C、people’s attitude toward family
D、people’s individual life
答案D
解析 事实细节题。题干中的lack of deep friendship和原文中if a person didn’t have a good friend意思相同，因此if a person didn’t have a good friend这个条件从句后面引出的结果应该就是lack of deep friendship产生的影响。原文中结果主句his or her life would be fundamentally lacking意为“此人的生活将是匮乏的”，因此，可以看出缺乏深厚友谊会对人的生活产生影响。所以，D)是本题答案。A)“人们的精神状况”、B)“人们的思维方式”和C)“人们对家庭的态度”都和原文意思不符，故排除。
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