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The extraordinary rise of living alone is the biggest social change that we’ve neglected to identify, let alone examine. Con

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问题     The extraordinary rise of living alone is the biggest social change that we’ve neglected to identify, let alone examine.
    Consider that in 1950, a mere 4 million Americans lived alone, making up only 9% of households. Back then, living alone was most common in the Western states that attracted seasonal workingmen, and it was usually a short-lived stage on the road to a more conventional domestic life.
    Not anymore. According to the latest data, nearly 33 million Americans live alone, making up 28% of households, which means they are now tied with childless couples as the most important type, more common than the nuclear family, the multi generational family and the roommate or group home. These aren’t just temporary living situations: over a five-year period, people who live alone are more likely to remain in their current state than anyone else except married couples with children. They’re concentrated in big cities throughout the country.
    Living alone, being alone and feeling lonely are hardly the same, yet in recent years experts have mixed them up, raising fears that the rise of living alone signals the ultimate atomization of the modern world. In fact, there’s little evidence that the rise of living alone is making more Americans lonely. According to the latest studies, what matters is not whether we live alone but whether we feel alone. Divorced people often say there’s nothing lonelier than living with the wrong person. Besides, people living alone compensate by becoming more socially active than those who live with others.
    The truth is, today nearly everyone who lives alone chooses to do so, despite less expensive options from finding roommates to living with family.
    After all, living alone allows us to do what we want, when we want, on our own terms. It liberates us from the restrictions of domestic partner’s needs and demands. Today, in our age of digital media and ever expanding social networks, living alone can offer even greater benefits: the time and space for the healing power of aloneness.
    This means that living alone can help us discover who we are and what gives us meaning and purpose. It might be exactly what we need to reconnect.
Today Americans who live alone________.
选项 A、expect to live in the Western states
B、tend to maintain their way of life
C、have a former marriage with kids
D、are related with childless couples
答案D
解析 细节题。文章第三段第二句话提到，最新数据显示将近3300万美国人独自一人居住，占家庭总数的28％，这意味着他们现在与无子女夫妇紧密联系在一起，这是最重要的类型，比核心家庭、多代家庭和室友或集体家庭更为普遍。由此可知，现在独居的美国人与无子女夫妇有关。其中B选项是干扰项。第三段第三句话提到，除了有孩子的已婚夫妇外，独居的人比其他任何人更可能保持现状，B选项的意思是现在美国独居的人倾向于维持他们的生活方式，文中说的保持现状指的是维持独居生活的状态，并没有提到独居人的生活方式。故选D。
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