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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 opinion of Carol Graham about the Internet?
选项
A、The Internet benefits people by helping them relax.
B、Women don’t get as much from the Internet as people think.
C、The effect of the Internet on happiness is very limited.
D、The cell phone is a better communication tool than the Internet.
答案
A
解析
根据题干中的Carol Graham将本题出处定位到第四段,该段末句是Carol Graham对互联网的评价。该句提到,“如果你向发展中国家引入一项技术,无论是互联网还是手机,它都能减轻人们日常生活中的高压力。这对生活幸福有很大的正面影响。”由此可知互联网能帮助人们放松,[A]The Internetbenefits people by helping them relax是对文中的allows people to reduce theirvery high constraints的同义转述,故为答案。[B]“女性未像人们想的那样从互联网上得到很多”与末段的the researchers weren’t expecting to discover thatwomen gain so much from technology信息相反,故排除;文中讲的是互联网对幸福的正面影响,未说到其作用有限,故排除[C];文中未对比手机和互联网哪个是更有效的交流工具,故排除[D]。
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