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It was not so long ago that parents drove a teenager to college campus, said a tearful goodbye and returned home to wait a week

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问题     It was not so long ago that parents drove a teenager to college campus, said a tearful goodbye and returned home to wait a week or so for a phone call from the dorm. Mom or Dad, in turn, might write letters—yes, with pens. But going to college these days means never having to say goodbye, thanks to near-saturation of cellphones, e-mails, instant messaging, texting, Facebook and Skype. Researchers are looking at how new technology may be delaying the point at which college-bound students truly become independent from their parents, and how phenomena such as the introduction of unlimited calling plans have changed the nature of parent-child relationships, and not always for the better.
    Students walking from biology class to the gym can easily fill a few minutes with a call to Mom’s office to whine(抱怨)about a professor’s lecture. Dad can pass along family news via e-mail. Daily text messaging is not uncommon. Some research suggests that today’s young adults are closer to their parents than their predecessors. Professors have figured out that some kids are e-mailing papers home for parents to edit. And Skype and Facebook might be more than just chances to see a face that’s missed at home; parents can peer into their little darling’s messy dorm room or his messy social life.
    Experts said the change dates to 9 - 11 , which upped parents’ anxiety over being out of touch with their children. And the rising cost of college can threaten parents’ willingness to let children make mistakes as they learn how to be adults. Many of today’s college students have had so much of their schedule programmed, so they may not know what to do with time and solitude, said Barbara Hofer, a Middlebury College psychology professor.
    Researchers are looking at these changing relationships, formed in the last few years after parents got smartphones and Facebook accounts too and learned how to use them. "There’s a tremendous diversity in how kids handle this. Some maintain old rules. But for many, many young people, they grow up essentially with the idea that they don’t have to separate from their parents," said Turklea, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose specialty is technology and relationship. "It’s about having an adolescence that doesn’t include the kind of separation that we used to consider part of adolescence," she added.
    Hofer and colleagues surveyed students at Middlebury in Vermont and at the University of Michigan, two schools different in many ways. But at both, parents and students were in contact frequently, an average of more than 13 times a week. The parents of today’s college students were advised to get involved in the children’s lives to communicate, communicate, and communicate. All that talk can signal a close, useful relationship, but it also can leave kids lacking what they need to fend for themselves.
Which of the following can best describe the passage?
选项 A、Communication shortens the distance.
B、Parents are always the best teachers.
C、Technology can be a double-edged sword.
D、Technology saves one from loneliness.
答案C
解析 主旨题。根据全文可知，作者真正的意图在于探究技术发展在给人们生活带来便利的同时，是否产生了一些负面的影响，特别是在保持真正有益于年轻人成长的亲子关系问题上，故[C]“技术是一把双刃剑”为正确答案。作者的重点不在于证明通信技术的发展和通讯工具的升级可以缩短空间上的距离，故排除[A]；本文的主旨也不在于证明“父母永远是子女最好的老师”，相反，作者对父母一味地给孩子各种指导的做法表示担忧，故排除[B]；而通信技术即使如[D]所言，使孩子免受了孤独之苦，但同时也使孩子无从学习如何面对孤独，继而难以真正地成熟独立起来，因此也不是本文的主旨所在，故予以排除。
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