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  3. No one really thrives in a wholly institutionalized (制度化的) environment or in a purely intellectual career. This truth might have

No one really thrives in a wholly institutionalized (制度化的) environment or in a purely intellectual career. This truth might have

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问题     No one really thrives in a wholly institutionalized (制度化的) environment or in a purely intellectual career. This truth might have been found long ago by observing babies, from whom much can be learned about human nature. The need is not a temporary one; it begins in infancy and continues throughout life. As the most materialistic science in the world, the science of medicine has been forced to admit that the human baby must be loved in order to live. He has fewer chances to survive in the sterilized (已灭菌的) ward than in a house full of gems. The baby needs personal affection more than anything else. He must be "mothered" by a mother who is all his own. A baby left without this is likely to die from sheer emotional starvation, or else grow up into a distorted (扭曲的) soul—a source of anxiety to everybody.
    The love impulse later undergoes an evolutionary growth, but it does not vanish. The baby is a creature that must be loved rather than a creature capable of loving. To develop this second ability, he needs to live in an atmosphere in which this mature kind of love is practiced. If his parents failed to chew, to walk or to speak, he would probably be backward in the acquisition of these arts. If his parents fail to furnish him with the example of love, he is desperately off. He may see the neighbors walk, and talk, and chew; but the subtle art of generous affection is usually demonstrated best before one’s own family.
     At the adult level, nobody can live wholly in a job. Too many persons are trying to do so. They think they can exist without intimate relationships and get along with the casual personal contacts of the job and the club. How much better if we admit our need of love and affection and then try to build up these relationships in the full light of self-knowledge? Personal attachments are necessary. Why call the World heartless if we have never looked for hearts in the only place where they occur—in the individual human bosom?
    Love means sacrifice, but it produces a well-balanced personality. The importance of love is demonstrated more by the disasters which follow up its absence than by the things which happen when it takes its normal place in life. As with many other vital necessities, we are scarcely conscious of its presence. But let it once cease, and the personality falls into disintegration. Love is not cheap, but we must choose to pay the cost, for life demands at least that much heroism from all of us.
If a baby were living in an environment without love, they would ______.
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答案die from emotional starvation or become a distorted soul
解析 第一段最后一句话告诉我们一个生活在没有爱的环境里的孩子很可能死于情感饥饿或成为一个扭曲的灵魂。
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