A、Count on each other for help. B、Give each other a cold shoulder. C、Keep a friendly distance. D、Build a fence between them. CWh

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It seems to me that neighbors are going out of style in America. The friend next door from whom you borrowed four eggs or a ladder has moved and the people in there now are strangers. Some of the traditional stories of neighborliness are impractical or silly, and it may be just as well that our relations with our neighbors are changing. The saying in the Bible "Love Thy Neighbor" was probably a poor translation of what must have originally been "Respect Thy Neighbor". Love can’t be called up on order. Fewer than half the people in the United States live in the same house they lived in five years ago, so there’s no reason to love the people who live next door to you just because they happened to wander into a real estate office that listed the place next door to yours. The only thing neighbors have in common, to be-gin with, is proximity, and unless something more develops, that isn’t reason enough to be best friends. It sometimes happens naturally, but the chances are very small that your neighbors will be your choice as friends. Or that you will be theirs, either.
    The best relationship with neighbors is one of friendly distance. You say hello, you small-talk if you see them in the yard, you discuss problems as they arise and you help each other in an emergency. The driveway or the fence between you is not really a cold shoulder, but a clear boundary. We all like clearly-defined boundaries for ourselves.

选项 A、Count on each other for help.
B、Give each other a cold shoulder.
C、Keep a friendly distance.
D、Build a fence between them.

答案C

解析 What should neighbors do in the speaker’s opinion?
四个选项都是动宾短语,而且也都出现了表现人际关系的词语,由此可以推测本题提问如何正确处理人际关系。对于邻里之间的关系出现的新变化,文章在结尾处提出了建议:The best relationship with neighbors is one of friendly distance,即邻里之间的最佳的关系是保持一种友好的距离,即选项C)的内容,由此得出答案。
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