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阅读理解——社会现象类
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A 2. What did the author and Epley's study focus on?
The tenm "social distancing" has been at the centerA.How technologies impact means of communication.
of public conversation for a while. But it's not "social"B. How social media choices aflect feeling of connection.
dislance we are trying to promole. It's physical separa-C.Why maintaining social separation is bad for men-
tion. In fact, preerving social ties — even at a distancetal health.
二is essential for both mental and physical health. TheD. Why rconnecting with frends over the phone brings
results of an analytic review done in 2017 indicate that aawkwardness.
lackof social support is on a par with(与……不相上3.Whatcanwe infer from the study results?
下)smoking cigarettes as a risk factor for health.A. They changed the research objectives,
Given this fact, how might we best stay connectedB. They provided insights for future studies.
t0 others while maintaining physical distance? Would weC.They confimed researchers'expectations.
be better off e-mailing a friend? Making a phone call?D.They contradicted participants' predictions partly.
Selting up a video chat? In our study, Nick Epley and l4. What can be concluded from the text?
tested whether the media through which people interactA. For stronger bonds, talk instead of typing
afects their sense of connection — and how expecta- B. Keeping in touch is key to a lasting friendship,
tions about certain technologies impact the communica-C.Think before you consider contacting an old friend.
tion media they choose to use. D.Text-based methods for communication cause dis-
In our experiment, we asked participants to recon-comfort.
nect with someone that they hadn't interacted with re- B
cently, either through e-mail or over the phone. Partici- The word "robot" was coined in 1920 by the
pants fist made predictions about what it would be like Cech playwright Karel Capek meaning fully functional
to get in touch if they reac