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　　Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious"both to the general public and to sociologists thatmodern society has changed people's naturalrelations, loosened their responsibilities to kin (亲戚)and neighbors,and substituted in their placesuperficial relationships with passing acquaintances.However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the "obvious" is nottrue. It seems that if you are a city resident. you typically know a smaller proportion of yourneighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community. But, for the most part,this fact has few significant consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few ofyour neighbors you will know no one else.

　　Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds.Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ between more andless urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than are big-city residents.Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friendships with people who share similar interestsand activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does notdiffer between town and city. Nor are residents of large communities any likelier to displaypsychological symptoms of stress or alienation. a feeling of not belonging, than are residentsof smaller communities. However. city dwellers do worry more about crime, and this leads themto a distrust of strangers.

　　These findings do not imply that urbanism makes little or no difference. If neighbors arestrangers to oneanother. they are less likely to sweep the sidewalk of an elderly couple livingnext door or keep an eye out for young trouble makers. Moreover. as Wirth suggested. theremay be a link between a community's population size and its social he.heterogeneity (多样性).For instance, sociologists have found much evidence that the size of a community isassociated with bad behavior including gambling, drugs. etc. Large-city urbanites are also morelikely than their small-town counterparts to have a cosmopolitan(见多识广者的) outlook. todisplay less responsibility to traditional kinship roles, to vote for leftist political candidates,and to be tolerant of nontraditional religious groups, unpopular political groups, and so-called undesirables. Everything considered, heterogeneity and unusual behavior seem to beoutcomes of large population size.

　　1. Which of the following statements best describes the organization of the first paragraph?

　　A) Two contrasting views are presented.

　　B) An argument is examined and possible solutions given.

　　C) Research results concerning the quality of urban life are presented in order of time.

　　D) A detailed description of the difference between urban arid small-town life is given.

　　2. According co the passage, it was once a common belief chai urban residents____________.

　　A) did not have the same interests as their neighbors

　　B) could not develop long-standing relationships

　　C) tended to be associated with bad behavior

　　D) usually had more friends

　　3. One of the consequences of urban life is that impersonal relationships among neighbors______.

　　A) disrupt people's natural relations

　　B) make them worry about crime

　　C) cause them not to show concern for one another

　　D) cause them !o be suspicious of each other

　　4. I can be inferred from the passage that che bigger a community is_____________.

　　A) the better its quality of life

　　B) the more similar its interests

　　C) the more tolerant it is

　　D) the likelier it is to display psychological symptoms of stress

　　5. What is che passage mainly about?

　　A) Similarities in the interpersonal relationships between urbanites and small town dwellers.

　　B) Advantages of living in big cities as compared with living in small towns.

　　C) The positive role that urbanism plays in modern life.

　　D) The strong feeling of' alienation of city inhabitants.

　　参考答案：

　　1. [A]在文章第1段作者通过However提出了两种完全不同的观点，“就在几十年前，对一须在众和社会学家而言，现代社会‘明显地’改变了人们的自然关系”和“然而，最近几年，越来越多的研究表明，那些‘明显’的事情并不真实”。因此，应该先A。

　　2. [B]根据文章第1段“就在几十年前，对于普通大众和社会学家而言，现代社会‘明显地’改变了人们的自然关系，使他们的亲情、邻里观念变得淡薄，取而代之的是彼此之间萍水相逢的表面关系”，由此可推断，B与文章的内容相符，故而正确。

　　3. [C]根据文章第3段“如果邻里之间互不相识，他们就不大会清扫隔壁老夫妇门前的过道，也不会帮忙照看一下小捣蛋”，故C正确。B是原因，不是结果。

　　4. 从文章中可以推断，社区越大，________________。

　　A) 生活质量就越高

　　B)兴趣就越相似

　　C) 就更具包容性

　　D)就更可能展现出精神压力的症状

　　5. [A]在文章第1段，作者提出了两种不同的观点，随后一直在论述第二个观点，作者通过对比大城市和小城镇居民的相似性来支持他自己的观点。因此，A与文章的内容想一致。

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