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"You need an apartment alone even if it’s over a garage", declared Helen Gur
"You need an apartment alone even if it’s over a garage", declared Helen Gur
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2024-02-01
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"You need an apartment alone even if it’s over a garage", declared Helen Gurley Brown in her 1962 bestseller Sex and the Single Girl. To Brown, the benefits of solo living were innumerable: it afforded the space to cultivate the self furnish the mind, work late and so on. Young women should enjoy their best years without a husband, she advised, as this not only laid the foundation for stronger marriages but also gave them a lifestyle to fall back on in case they found themselves alone again.
Certainly both sexes have taken it to heart, marrying later, divorcing readily and living alone in larger numbers than ever before. Worldwide, the number of solo dwellers has climbed from 153m in 1996 to 202m in 2006—a 33% jump in a decade, according to Euromonitor International, a market analyst. Yet little is known about the wider social effects of this unprecedented boom, writes Eric Klinenberg. His new book Going Solo offers a comprehensive look at the lures and perils of living alone.
Young adults view it as a rite of passage, a period of personal growth before possibly settling down. Its cultural acceptance has helped to liberate women from bad marriages and oppressive families, granting them a space to return to civic life. And as elderly adults live longer than ever before, often without a partner, many hope to stay independent lor as long as possible, says Mr. Klinenberg.
Solitary living need not mean solitude. The author offers evidence that people who live alone are often more socially active than their cohabitating peers. The "communications revolution" has allowed more people to experience the pleasures of social life from the comforts of home, and cities with high numbers of singletons enjoy a thriving public culture of bars, cafes and restaurants.
Mr. Klinenberg came to this story while working on a book about the lethal Chicago heatwave of 1995, when hundreds of people died alone at home, out of touch with friends and neighbors. The trend for solo living can too easily transform into social isolation. Other concerns include loneliness, discrimination and wor-kaholism. [br] According to Paragraph 4, people who live alone______.
选项
A、are less socially active than their cohabitating peers
B、enjoy the time with other singletons in bars and restaurants
C、have a strong sense of solitude
D、benefit little from "communication revolution"
答案
B
解析
语义理解题。第四段指出“独居生活并不意味着形单影只。克林南伯格在书中岁列了大量证据,表明独居的人比群居的同龄人在社交上更加活跃。‘通信革命’让更多人体验到居家舒适带来的社交愉悦。拥有众多单身族的城市也兴起了独居人士一起在酒吧、咖啡馆和餐馆同欢的公共文化。”由此可知独居者享受和其他独居者在酒吧和餐馆的时光,故选项B)正确。
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