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To anyone paying attention these days, it’s clear that social media are changing the way we live. Face-to-face chatting is givin

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问题     To anyone paying attention these days, it’s clear that social media are changing the way we live. Face-to-face chatting is giving way to texting and messaging; people even prefer these electronic exchanges to, for instance, simply talking on a phone. Amid these smaller trends, growing research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship Where is all this leading modern-day society? Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic stimuli slowly replace the joys of human contact. Awareness of a possible problem took off just as the online world was emerging. In the United Kingdom, the Mental Health Foundation just published The Lonely Society, which notes that about half of Brits believe they’re living in, well, a lonelier society. One in three would like to live closer to their families, though social trends are forcing them to live farther apart.
    Typically, the pressures of urban life are blamed: In London, a poll had two-fifths of respondents reporting that they face a prevailing drift away from their closest friends. According to work published in the American Sociological Review, the average American has only two close friends, and a quarter don’t have any. Aristotle was just one thinker to remark that if a person didn’t have a good friend, his or her life would be fundamentally lacking. A society that restraints opportunities for deeper sociality, therefore, prevents well-being.
    No single person is at fault, of course. We learn how to make friends—or not—in our most formative years, as children. Recent studies on childhood, and how the contemporary life of the child affects friendships, are illuminating. Again a central conclusion often reached relates to a lack of what is called "unstructured time."
    Structured time results from the way an average day is parceled up for our kids—time for school, time for homework, time for music practice, even time for play. Yet too often today, no period is left unstructured. After all, who these days lets his child just wander off down the street? But that is precisely the kind of leisure time so vital for deeper friendships. It’s then that we simply "hang out"with no tasks, no deadlines and no pressures. It is in those moments that children and adults alike can get to know others for who they are in themselves. Aristotle had an attractive expression to capture the thought: close friends, he observed, "share salt together". It’s not just that they sit together, passing the salt across the meal table. It’s that they sit with one another across the course of their lives, sharing its taste—its moments, bitter and sweet. "The desire for friendship comes quickly; friendship does not," Aristotle also remarked. It’s a key insight for an age of instant social connectivity, though one in which we paradoxically have an apparently growing need to be more deeply connected.
According to recent studies, what is related to people’s lack of friendship?
选项 A、Too much dependence on modern technology.
B、Lack of unstructured time.
C、Distance from family and friends.
D、Ignorance of Aristotle’s philosophy.
答案B
解析 事实细节题。本题考查的是最近的研究的发现。第三段第三句指出最近的研究对人有启示作用，第四句进行了详细说明。原文中central conclusion表明得出了结论，而原文中的relates to恰好对应题干中的related to。由此我们可以得出，对友谊造成影响的是unstructured time。因此，B)是本题答案。A)“对现代科技过多的依赖”在原文中并未提到，故排除；C)“与家人及朋友的距离”虽在文章中有所表现，但不是最近的研究，故排除；D)“对亚里士多德哲学的无知”是对文章的曲解，也应排除。
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