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13．When I enrolled at Pepperdine University in 1974，my mother exercised her parental right to express her worry at my departure．I responded with typical teenage indifference and ignorance．"Mom，I'm only an hour away．What's the bit deal？""You just wait until you have one of your own，"she cried．"Then you'll know what I'm feeling．"It has been a little more than a month since my daughter Devin moved into her dorm at Occidental college，and life as I know it has come to an end．Or that's what it feels like．Mom，you were right．
The nest's empty loneliness is almost unbearable．Why does it hurt so bad？Science has an answer：We are social mammals who experience deep attachment to our fellow friends and family，an evolutionary throwback to our Paleolithic（舊石器時(shí)代的）hunter-gatherer days of living in small bands．Bonding unified the group，aiding survival in harsh climates and against unforgiving enemies．Attachment between parents and offspring assured that there is no one better equipped to look after the future survival of your genes than yourself．
The empty-nest syndrome is real，but there is good news for this and all forms of loss and grief．According to Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert，we are not very good at forecasting our unhappiness．Most of us think that we would be miserable for a very long time．Gilbert calls this the durability bias，an emotional misunderstanding．
The durability bias and the failure to recognize the power of our emotional immune systems lead us to overestimate how depressed we will feel and for how long，and to underestimate how quickly we will get rid of it and feel better．
For me，taking the long view helps．How long？Deep time．Evolutionary time，in which 6，895 days represent a mere 0.000000005% of the 3.5 billion year history of life on Earth．
Each of us parents makes one small contribution to the evolutionary importance of life's continuity from one generation to the next without a single gap，an unbroken link over the eons（永久）．
57．What message does the author want to express by telling us her experience in the first paragraph？C
A．The empty-nest syndrome is really hard for old parents to bear．
B．All people should learn to love their parents no matter how old they are．
C．A person will not understand his parents?love until he has his own child．
D．The love parents give to children is selfless and should be respected．
58．According to Daniel Gilbert，the empty-nest syndrome isA．
A．caused by our emotional misunderstanding
B．not a real problem but in our imagination
C．the result of overestimating our happiness
D．from our emotional immune systems
59．The author gets herself out of the empty-nest syndrome by holding a positive idea thatD．
A．she can go to see her daughter regularly when she misses her
B．her daughter will one day come back to her after graduation
C．her daughter will understand her when she has her own children
D．the departure from her daughter is much shorter than the history of life on Earth
60．What kind of role do parents play in the human history，according to the last paragraph？B
A．They cultivate talents for the development of history．
B．They help keep the life's continuity without a broken link．
C．They accelerate the evolutionary pace of the human beings．
D．They point a right way for the next generation to develop themselves．

Answer 1

分析 本文是一篇說(shuō)明文．1974年我被佩珀丁大學(xué)錄取，在我要離開(kāi)家門時(shí)，母親行使她為人父母的權(quán)利，絮絮叨叨的述說(shuō)著她的不安．我卻以典型的冷漠和無(wú)知來(lái)回應(yīng)母親．當(dāng)我自己的女兒離開(kāi)上大學(xué)時(shí)，我終于體會(huì)了當(dāng)時(shí)我離開(kāi)時(shí)母親對(duì)我的絮絮叨叨，此時(shí)已完全理解了母親對(duì)我的牽掛和不舍．空巢孤獨(dú)感幾乎是無(wú)法忍受的．我們都是深深依戀朋友和家人的社會(huì)哺乳動(dòng)物．空巢綜合癥是真實(shí)的．大多數(shù)人認(rèn)為自己會(huì)難受很長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)間，吉爾伯特把這叫做持久偏見(jiàn)--一種情感誤解．對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)的角度來(lái)看是大有裨益的，離開(kāi)她的女兒是比地球上生命的歷史要短得多．我們的父母在人類進(jìn)化中對(duì)一代一代的繁衍生命的連續(xù)性做了貢獻(xiàn)．即他們?cè)趲椭�保持生命無(wú)間斷的延續(xù)．

解答 57．C   細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第一段中"．"It has been a little more than a month since my daughter Devin moved into her dorm at Occidental college，and life as I know it has come to an end．Or that's what it feels like．Mom，you were right．"可知，我的女兒迪溫搬進(jìn)她西方學(xué)院的宿舍剛有一個(gè)月零幾天的時(shí)間，我所理解的生活就結(jié)束了，或者說(shuō)生活給了我類似結(jié)束的感覺(jué)，我終于體會(huì)了當(dāng)時(shí)我離開(kāi)時(shí)母親對(duì)我的絮絮叨叨，此時(shí)已完全理解了母親對(duì)我的牽掛和不舍．故選C．
58．A    細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第三段中"we are not very good at forecasting our unhappiness．Most of us think that we would be miserable for a very long time．Gilbert calls this the durability bias，an emotional misunderstanding"可知，我們不太擅長(zhǎng)預(yù)測(cè)我們的悲傷，大多數(shù)人認(rèn)為自己會(huì)難受很長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)間，吉爾伯特把這叫做持久偏見(jiàn)--一種情感誤解．故選A．
59．D    細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第五段中的"For me，taking the long view helps．How long？Deep time．Evolutionary time，in which 6，895 days represent a mere 0.000000005% of the 3.5 billion year history of life on Earth．"可知，對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)的角度來(lái)看是大有裨益的，6，895天只是人類歷史長(zhǎng)河三十五億年中的0.000000005%，從而可推知，離開(kāi)她的女兒是比地球上生命的歷史要短得多．故選D．
60．B   細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)最后一段中的"Each of us parents makes one small contribution to the evolutionary importance of life's continuity from one generation to the next without a single gap，an unbroken link over the eons"可知，我們的父母在人類進(jìn)化中對(duì)一代一代的繁衍生命的連續(xù)性做了貢獻(xiàn)．即他們?cè)趲椭�保持生命無(wú)間斷的延續(xù)．故選B．

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