单选题 .  Housing officials say that lately they are noticing something different: students seem to lack the will, and skill, to address these ordinary conflicts. "We have students who are mad at each other and they text each other in the same room," says a teacher. "So, many of our roommate conflicts are because kids don't know how to negotiate a problem."
    And as any pop psychologist will tell you, bottled emotions lead to silent seething (不满) that can boil over into frustration and anger. At the University of Florida, emotional outbursts occur about once a week, the university's director of housing and residence education says. "It used to be: 'Let's sit down and talk about it,'" he says. "Over the past five years, roommate conflicts have intensified. The students don't have the person-to-person discussions and they don't know how to handle them." The problem is most dramatic among freshmen; housing professionals say they see improvement as students move toward graduation, but some never seem to catch on, and they worry about how such students will deal with conflicts after college.
    Administrators speculate that reliance on cell phones and the Internet may have made it easier for young people to avoid uncomfortable encounters. Why express anger in person when you can vent in a text? Facebook creates even more friction as complaints go public. "Things are posted on someone's wall on Facebook: 'Oh, my roommate kept me up all night studying,'" says Dana Pysz, an assistant director in the office of residential life at the University of California, Los Angeles. "It's a different way to express their conflict to each other." In recent focus groups at North Carolina State University, dorm residents said they would not even confront noisy neighbors on their floor.
    Administrators point to parents who have fixed their children's problems their entire lives. Now in college, the children lack the skills to attend to even modest conflicts. Some parents continue to intervene on campus.1.  What does the word "address" (Para. 1) mean? ______
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】 本文是一篇关于地震预测的说明文,题材上属于科普类。文中介绍了利用震前的物理迹象以及动物的行为来预测地震的方法。为了寻找预测地震的可靠方法,科学家把研究集中在一些受到地球板块持续运动影响的特定区域。文中介绍了科学家预测地震的方法:一是收集震前的物理迹象;二是利用动物的行为。
   原因理解题。原文首段最后两句说“一种预测技术是把对地震重现率的分析作为未来地震活动的指示器。地震总是集中在受到地球板块持续运动影响的特定区域,科学家把他们的研究集中在这些特定区域。”由此可知,重现率可以帮助预测以后的地震,因为“持续的板块运动通常导致在特定的区域发生地震”,故答案为D。原文并未提及A项“数学上的进步能够使数字更加精确”和B项“这种方法从古代就开始应用,而且被证明很有成效”;C项“大多数科学家集中精力研究特定区域的震动”并不是地震重现率能够帮助预测地震的原因。