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The extraordinary rise of living alone is the biggest social change that we’ve neglected to identify, let alone examine. Con

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问题     The extraordinary rise of living alone is the biggest social change that we’ve neglected to identify, let alone examine.
    Consider that in 1950, a mere 4 million Americans lived alone, making up only 9% of households. Back then, living alone was most common in the Western states that attracted seasonal workingmen, and it was usually a short-lived stage on the road to a more conventional domestic life.
    Not anymore. According to the latest data, nearly 33 million Americans live alone, making up 28% of households, which means they are now tied with childless couples as the most important type, more common than the nuclear family, the multi generational family and the roommate or group home. These aren’t just temporary living situations: over a five-year period, people who live alone are more likely to remain in their current state than anyone else except married couples with children. They’re concentrated in big cities throughout the country.
    Living alone, being alone and feeling lonely are hardly the same, yet in recent years experts have mixed them up, raising fears that the rise of living alone signals the ultimate atomization of the modern world. In fact, there’s little evidence that the rise of living alone is making more Americans lonely. According to the latest studies, what matters is not whether we live alone but whether we feel alone. Divorced people often say there’s nothing lonelier than living with the wrong person. Besides, people living alone compensate by becoming more socially active than those who live with others.
    The truth is, today nearly everyone who lives alone chooses to do so, despite less expensive options from finding roommates to living with family.
    After all, living alone allows us to do what we want, when we want, on our own terms. It liberates us from the restrictions of domestic partner’s needs and demands. Today, in our age of digital media and ever expanding social networks, living alone can offer even greater benefits: the time and space for the healing power of aloneness.
    This means that living alone can help us discover who we are and what gives us meaning and purpose. It might be exactly what we need to reconnect.
The writer concludes that living alone enables us to________.
选项 A、get help from others
B、know our true selves
C、set up social networks
D、reconnect with friends
答案B
解析 推断题。文章最后一段第一句话提到，这意味着独自生活可以帮助我们发现我们是谁，是什么给了我们生活的意义和目的。由此可知，作者得出结论是独居能够让我们认识真实的自我。故选B。
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