In our contemporary culture,the prospect

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问题 In our contemporary culture,the prospect of communicating with--or even looking at--a stranger is virtually unbearable.Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they fiddle with their phones,even without a 1 underground.It's a sad reality--our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings--because there's 2 to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you.But you wouldn't know it,3 into your phone.This universal armor sends the 4:"Please don't approach me."What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens?One answer is fear,according to Jon Wortmann,executive mental coach.We fear rejection,or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as"creepy,".We fear we'll be 7.We fear we'll be disruptive.Strangers are inherently 8 to us,so we are more likely to feel 9 when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances.To avoid this anxiety,we 10 to our phones."Phones become our security blanket,"Wortmann says."They are our happy glasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11.”But once we rip off the bandaid,tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up,it doesn't 12 so bad.In one 2011 experiment,behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable:Start a 13.They had Chicago train commuters talk to their fellow 14."When Dr.Epley and Ms.Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to 15 how they would feel after talking to a stranger,the commuters thought their 16 would be more pleasant if they sat on their own,"the New York Times summarizes.Though the participants didn't expect a positive experience,after they 17 with the experiment,"not a single person reported having been snubbed."18,these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those sans communication,which makes absolute sense,19 human beings thrive off of social connections.It's that 20:Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.6选？A.misinterpretB.misappliedC.misadjustedD.mismatched

选项 A.misinterpret
B.misapplied
C.misadjusted
D.mismatched

答案 A

解析词义辨析【直击答案】本段传递的是一种担忧，句中的innocent和weird是表示相反意思的形容词，另结合句子的谓语fear可知A项符合，be misinterpreted as意思是“被误解为”。【命题思路】四个选项都是由否定前缀mis构成的否定意义的词，主要考查对动词词义的辨析。【干扰排除】C项和D项通常作为表语，用法为sth.is/are misadjusted/mismatched，不与介词as搭配。B项满足要求用法，但是不符合语义。

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In our contemporary culture,the prospect

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