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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.
【C9】
选项 A、comfortable
B、anxious
C、confident
D、angry
答案B
解析 本题考查形容词辨析。本形容词处于表语的位置，系动词是feel，主语是we，即我们感觉怎么样。同时本填空之后出现了when引导的一个条件状语，即when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances。这里的them指代的是此前的Strangers(陌生人)，而our friends and acquaintances指的是我们的朋友和熟人，这里将我们与陌生人交流时的感受以及我们与朋友、熟人交流时的感受进行对比。同时本填空所在的句子由so引导，即本句是前句信息的结果，而前句表达的意思是Strangers(陌生人)对我们而言是unfamiliar(不熟悉的)。本题的选项存在明显的对立性概念，比如A项comfortable(舒服的)和C项confident(有信心的)是正面的概念，而B项anxious(焦虑的)和D项angry(愤怒的)则是负面的概念。根据上述分析，本填空所选择的形容词一定是与此前unfamiliar(不熟悉的)倾向一致的负面概念，即我们与陌生人交流的感觉是负面的，因此首先排除A项和C项。D项angry(愤怒的)定义的不恰当，因为从unfamiliar(不熟悉的)来判断，陌生人对我们而言只是不熟悉，没有到令我们愤怒的程度。最佳答案是B项anxious(焦虑的)，即因为陌生人对我们而言是不熟悉的，因此与陌生人交流让我们感觉焦虑，anxious(焦虑的)与unfamiliar(不熟悉的)的倾向和修饰程度也最为一致。同时此题也可以利用复现原则直接确定答案，在本填空之后的句子中出现了To avoid this uneasiness，这里的uneasiness由指代词this来修饰，这种指代就说明前文一定要出现过uneasiness(焦虑)的概念，据此可以直接确定本填空的答案只能是B项anxious(焦虑的)，否则下文的To avoid this uneasiness就讲不通了。
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