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上期划线句答案
Self-deprecating humor without any bragging at all, or humor intended to belittle others in any form, doesn’t have the same positive impact that humorous bragging does, according to the research.
研究表明，没有任何自夸的自嘲式幽默，或者任何贬低他人的幽默，都不会产生与幽默自夸同样的积极影响。
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本期内容
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双语阅读
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A recent analysis of census data found that Americans are spending more time at home, and a large part of it alone. The analysis, based on responses to the American Time Use Survey, shows that time spent at home increased by 1 hour 39 minutes a day, or 10 percent, from 2003 through 2022. It's a trend that rose sharply during the pandemic and had yet to return to more typical levels by 2022 — a sign that the pandemic may have hastened a cultural shift already in progress.
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Years before the first stay-at-home orders were enacted, Americans were already beginning to spend more time at home. “It’s a dramatic shift in our daily lives,” said Patrick Sharkey, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton, and the author of the study. “Almost every part of our lives is more likely to take place at home.”
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The rise in working at home during the pandemic has been a big chunk of that, taking up 29 percent of all work activity in 2022. But even before then, from 2003 to 2019, the share of work time at home had crept up to 17 percent from 13 percent. Other activities followed a similar track — a gradual rise over years followed by a spike during the pandemic that was still felt sharply in the first two months of 2022.
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Two decades later, Americans seem to be ceding even more social spaces in their inward turn. The Time Use study found that while people were spending somewhat more time with family at home, much more of the time at home was alone. For each additional hour spent at home, people spent an additional 7.4 minutes with family and 21 minutes alone, but five fewer minutes with friends.
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The findings echo what other researchers have uncovered — that today’s youth are more socially isolated than previous generations, in part because of the arrival of technology that enabled people to live more of their lives online. A 2020 study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health found increases in loneliness among young people during the pandemic, and a 2021 study of questionnaires of young people found that loneliness had been rising over the last four decades.
本文节选自：The New York Times（纽约时报）
发布时间：2024.10.8
作者：THE UPSHOT
原文标题：A Nation of Homebodies
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原句：The findings echo what other researchers have uncovered — that today’s youth are more socially isolated than previous generations, in part because of the arrival of technology that enabled people to live more of their lives online.
结构：The findings echo what X have uncovered — that Y, in part because of A.
例句：The findings echo what scientists have uncovered — that climate change is accelerating, in part because of human activity.
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What does the term "ceding" in the passage most likely mean?
A) Gaining
B) Relinquishing
C) Enhancing
D) Disputing
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