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When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. There are countless studies that suggest regular access to the Inte
When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. There are countless studies that suggest regular access to the Inte
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2012-05-28
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When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. There are countless studies that suggest regular access to the Internet is linked to stress, anxiety and addiction. But before you stop tweeting and toss out your iPhone, it turns out that spending time on the Web could actually be making you happier.
A May 12 report by British researchers from the U.K.’s Chartered Institute for IT (known as BCS) have found a link between Internet access and well-being. But some benefit more than others from tapping into the information superhighway, including those with lower incomes or fewer qualifications, people living in the developing world and, perhaps most surprisingly, women.
Overall, the study found that access to the Internet leads people to feel better about their lives. "Put simply, people with IT access are more satisfied with life even when taking account of income," said Michael Willmott, the social scientist who authored the study, at a press conference. "Our analysis suggests that IT has an enabling and empowering role in people’s lives, by increasing their sense of freedom and control, which has a positive impact on well-being or happiness." Looking at a number of social and economic factors that determine happiness — including gender, age, income and education — the survey showed that Internet use empowers people by increasing their feelings of security, personal freedom and influence.
"The results...are very plausible," says Carol Graham, chair in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and author of Happiness Around the World. "If you introduce a technology into the developing world, whether it is the Internet or the cell phone, that allows people to reduce their very high constraints of getting through daily life. It has a tremendous well-being effect."
But the researchers weren’t expecting to discover that women gain so much from technology, given that it’s such a male-dominated industry. Although the report didn’t explore why women reap more happiness from Internet access than men do, the report hypothesizes that because women tend to be at the center of their family’s social network, the Web is a tool to help them keep their home lives organized. According to the Brookings Institution’s Graham, while the findings may be surprising initially, they do make sense. "Particularly the results on gender and lesser developing countries, if you consider that women in many of these contexts are either isolated or repressed in a way," she says. "IT gives them communication with the outside world, access to networks and so on. Friendships are very important to well-being as well, and one can imagine e-mail and IT being a good way to maintain those, particularly in contexts where telephones and transport are far from ideal or reliable."
What is the passage mainly about?
选项
A、Human’s mental health.
B、The bad reputation of the Internet.
C、The benefits of the Internet.
D、How to use the Internet.
答案
C
解析
本题是对本文主旨的考查。纵观全文,本文主要探讨了互联网的应用与幸福的关系。文章首先提出,上网让人更幸福快乐,然后讲述研究发现互联网的应用与幸福有关,尤其对于女性而言。由此可见,本文主要讲述了互联网的好处,故答案为[C]。[A]“人类的心理健康”和[B]“互联网的臭名声”都是针对第一段设的干扰项,用做文章主题有失偏颇,故排除;文中未讲到如何使用互联网的问题,故排除[D]。
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