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Under the right circumstances, choosing to spend time alone can be a huge psychological blessing. In the 1980s, the Italian jour

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问题     Under the right circumstances, choosing to spend time alone can be a huge psychological blessing. In the 1980s, the Italian journalist and author Tiziano Terzani, after many years of reporting across Asia, holed himself up in a cabin in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. "For a month I had no one to talk to except my dog Baoli, " he wrote in his book A Fortune Teller Told Me. Terzani passed the time with books, observing nature, "listening to the winds in the trees, watching butterflies, enjoying silence. " For the first time in a long while he felt free from the unending anxieties of daily life: "At last I had time to have time. "
    Terzani’ s embrace of isolation was relatively unusual: Humans have long considered solitude an inconvenience, something to avoid, a punishment, a realm of loners. Science has often associated it with negative outcomes. Freud, who linked solitude with anxiety, noted that, "In childhood the first fears relating to situations are those of darkness and solitude. " John Cacioppo, a modern social neuro-scientist who has extensively studied loneliness-what he calls "chronic perceived isolation-contends that, beyond damaging our thinking powers, isolation can even harm our physical health. But increasingly scientists are approaching solitude as something that, when pursued by choice, can prove a therapy.
    This is especially true in times of personal disorder, when the instinct is often for people to reach outside of themselves for support. "When people are experiencing crisis it’ s not always just about you: It’ s about how you are in society, " explains Jack Fong, a sociologist at California State Polytechnic University who has studied solitude.
    In other words, when people remove themselves from the social context of their lives, they are better able to see how they’ re shaped by that context. Thomas Merton, a monk and writer who spent years alone, held a similar notion. "We cannot see things in perspective until we cease to hug them to our breast, " he writes in Thoughts in Solitude. "People can go for a walk or listen to music and feel that they are deeply in touch with themselves. "
    The word "solitude" (Para.  2)  is closest in meaning to "_________".
选项 A、growing anxious
B、feeling empty
C、being helpless
D、staying alone
答案D
解析 释义题。定位到文章第二段“Terzani’s embrace of isolation was relatively unusual：Humans have long considered solitude an inconvenience，something to avoid， a punishment，a realm of loners．”可知，Terzani对孤独的欣然接受相对来说是不寻常的，然后开始进行解释，后面提到的都是一般人们对孤独的看法，由此推断solitude应该与isolation的词意最相近，故选D。
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