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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
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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2013-02-17
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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 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.
What kind of effect does the emergence of online world bring to us?
选项
A、It makes people feel lonelier than before.
B、It provides people with more private time and space.
C、It strengthens people’s contact with others.
D、It helps people save more time and money.
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。题于中的the emergence of online world实际上是原文中as the online world was emerging的变形,把从句变成了名词短语。因此,由第一段第六句可知,网上世界的出现带来了问题。第七句提到大部分英国人觉得自己生活在一个更加孤独的社会里。故网上世界的出现造成的结果就是人们觉得比以前更孤独了。因此,A)是本题答案。B)“使人们有了更多的私人时间和空间”和D)“帮助人们节省更多的时间和金钱”都没有在原文中提到,故排除;C)“加强了人与人之间的联系”恰恰和原文意思相反,故排除。
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