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In the past fifty years, American society has changed a great deal. Fifty years ago, most Americans lived in small communities.

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问题      In the past fifty years, American society has changed a great deal. Fifty years ago, most Americans lived in small communities. They rarely moved from one area to another and knew their neighbors at least by name if not by close, personal relations. Life was so personal in those days that people often joked about it.They said that a person could not even stay home from church on Sunday without the whole town knowing about it. It was difficult to keep one’s secret in a small community like that, but there was usually a sense of safety, of belonging, and of community togetherness in such places. Except for church and the local movie theater, there was not much entertainment. Some people dreamed about moving to the exciting life of the big cities, but most people were happy to live all their lives in the same community.
    Few people experience this type of lifelong relationship or sense of community togetherness now. The American society is much more unsettled now; people often move from neighborhood to neighborhood, city to city, and coast to coast. It is rare to find people who have lived all their lives in one community. Because people move so frequently, they do not have a chance to get to know their neighbors. Perhaps this is also why Americans tend to have a more casual attitude about friendships than people from some other cultures; Americans are accustomed to leaving friends and making new friends. In such an impersonal society, people have lost the habit of saying hello to people they pass on the streets or in the hallways of their apartment buildings.
Why does the writer say that the American society today is an "impersonal" society (last paragraph)?
选项 A、Because American people do not like to talk to each other.
B、Because the society does not have small communities now.
C、Because not many people say "hello" to each other when they meet.
D、Because people no longer maintain close relations with each other.
答案D
解析 本题为细节推断题。在这里，“impersonal”应该理解为“没有人情味的”。文章的第二段说的是现在的美国人频繁地更换他们的居住地，因而他们不能很好地了解他们周围的人，也就淡化了“友谊”这一概念，从而造成了人们在路上遇到的时候不再相互问候。由此可见，人们之间的距离远了。另外，在第一段中提到，在五十年前，住在乡村的人们相互之间非常熟悉，哪怕是有人在星期天不去教堂做礼拜，都会让全镇人知道。第一段和第二段形成了鲜明的对比，说明美国人之间的关系由过去的紧密变成了现在的疏远。因此，答案是 D。C 不是正确答案，因为人们见面不打招呼只是一种表面现象，并不是内在实质。
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