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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.
Why do people make real friends in unstructured time?
选项
A、Because people can relax so that they will show their true self.
B、Because people can get a true understanding of other people.
C、Because people feel good to each other when they have a good time.
D、Because people offer help to each other when they have difficulties.
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。第四段第四句提出unstructured time对深厚友谊的产生非常重要,但并未说明原因。定位句中的It is…that…这个强调句型强调了unstructured time的重要作用,即定位句对unstructured time的重要性进行了说明。作者指出在这段时间内无论是孩子还是大人都会对他人内心的真实模样产生认识。因此,B)是本题答案。A)“因为人们能够放松,因此就能表现出真正的自我”、C)“因为人们在一起过得愉快而对彼此产生了好印象”和D)“因为人们在遇到困难的时候互相帮助”都和原文意思不符,故排除。
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