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In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with—or even looking at—a stranger is virtually unbearable. Everyone

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问题     In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with—or even looking at—a stranger is virtually unbearable. Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they fiddle with their phones, even without a【C1】________on a subway.
    It’s a sad reality—our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings—because there’s【C2】________to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you. But you wouldn’t know it,【C3】________into your phone. This universal armor sends the【C4】________: "Please don’t approach me."
    What is it that makes us feel we need to hide【C5】________our screens?
    One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, executive mental coach. We fear rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be【C6】________as "weird". We fear we’ll be【C7】________. We fear we’ll be disruptive.
    Strangers are inherently【C8】________to us, so we are more likely to feel【C9】________when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances. To avoid this uneasiness, we【C10】________to our phones. "Phones become our security blanket," Wortmann says. "They are our happy glasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more【C11】________.
    But once we rip off the band-aid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesn’t 【C12】________so bad. In one 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable: Start a【C13】________. They had Chicago train commuters talk to their fellow【C14】________. "When Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to 【C15】________how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their【C16】________would be more pleasant if they sat on their own," The New York Times summarizes. Though the participants didn’t expect a positive experience, after they【C17】________with the experiment, "not a single person reported having been embarrassed."
    【C18】________, these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those without communication, which makes absolute sense,【C19】________human beings thrive off of social connections. It’s that【C20】________: Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.
【C20】
选项 A、funny
B、simple
C、logical
D、rare
答案B
解析 本题考查形容词辨析。本形容词出现在表语的位置，并且所在的句子是一个下定义的句子，此后冒号之后出现的Talking to strangers can make you feel connected就是对全文的总结和归纳，本形容词就是对这个总结归纳句进行定义。因此本形容词必须遵守同现原则，即必须与全文的主旨倾向一致。文章的主旨倾向是鼓励人们之间交流，因此talking to strangers can make you feel connected是全文倾向所支持的，据此排除A项funny(好笑的)和D项rare(稀有的)。选项C项logical(符合逻辑的)在倾向上是正面的，但其表达的意思与本题意无关联，因为文章的结论与符合不符合逻辑没有关系。最佳答案是B项simple(简单的)，在英语中，特别是议论文中，It is simple实际上是对某种观点或看法的强烈肯定，意思大体是“这是简单明了不过的”，实际上表达的是强烈的肯定。
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