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When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. There are countless studies that suggest regular access to the Inte

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问题     When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. There are countless studies that suggest regular access to the Internet is linked to stress, anxiety and addiction. But before you stop tweeting and toss out your iPhone, it turns out that spending time on the Web could actually be making you happier.
    A May 12 report by British researchers from the U.K.’s Chartered Institute for IT (known as BCS) have found a link between Internet access and well-being. But some benefit more than others from tapping into the information superhighway, including those with lower incomes or fewer qualifications, people living in the developing world and, perhaps most surprisingly, women.
    Overall, the study found that access to the Internet leads people to feel better about their lives. "Put simply, people with IT access are more satisfied with life even when taking account of income," said Michael Willmott, the social scientist who authored the study, at a press conference. "Our analysis suggests that IT has an enabling and empowering role in people’s lives, by increasing their sense of freedom and control, which has a positive impact on well-being or happiness." Looking at a number of social and economic factors that determine happiness — including gender, age, income and education — the survey showed that Internet use empowers people by increasing their feelings of security, personal freedom and influence.
    "The results...are very plausible," says Carol Graham, chair in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and author of Happiness Around the World. "If you introduce a technology into the developing world, whether it is the Internet or the cell phone, that allows people to reduce their very high constraints of getting through daily life. It has a tremendous well-being effect."
    But the researchers weren’t expecting to discover that women gain so much from technology, given that it’s such a male-dominated industry. Although the report didn’t explore why women reap more happiness from Internet access than men do, the report hypothesizes that because women tend to be at the center of their family’s social network, the Web is a tool to help them keep their home lives organized. According to the Brookings Institution’s Graham, while the findings may be surprising initially, they do make sense. "Particularly the results on gender and lesser developing countries, if you consider that women in many of these contexts are either isolated or repressed in a way," she says. "IT gives them communication with the outside world, access to networks and so on. Friendships are very important to well-being as well, and one can imagine e-mail and IT being a good way to maintain those, particularly in contexts where telephones and transport are far from ideal or reliable."
Why is the Internet severely criticized when it comes to mental health?
选项 A、Access to Internet makes people anxious and addicted.
B、Excessive use of Internet isolates people from others.
C、Negative news floods the Internet making people insecure.
D、Internet access leads people to feel worse about their lives.
答案A
解析 根据题干中的when it comes to mental health将本题出处定位到首段首句，但答案要在第二句中找。文中首先提出观点，随后解释原因。第二句提到，数不清的研究表明，经常上网会导致压力、焦虑和上瘾。[A]Accessto Internet makes people anxious and addicted是对文中的access to the Internetis linked to stress，anxiety and addiction的同义转述，故为答案。[B]“过度使用互联网使人与他人孤立”是针对文中倒数第二句的IT gives them communicationwith the outside world设的干扰项；[C]“互联网的负面新闻使人没有安全感”未在文中提到，故排除；[D]是针对文中第三段的access to the Internet leads peo-ple to feel better about their lives设的干扰项。
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