根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Empathy
Last year, researchers from the University of Michigan reported that empathy, the ability to understand other people, among college students had dropped sharply over the past 10 years. _【小题1】 Today, people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs.
Jennifer Freed, a co-director of a teen program, has another explanation. Turn on the TV, and you’re showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting, peting, and generally treating one another with no respect. _【小题2】_
There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially related by nature. 【小题3】 Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and fear.
Empathy is also an indication of a good leader. In fact, Freed says, many top panies report that empathy is one of the most important things they look for in new managers. _【小题4】_ “Academics are important. But if you don’t have emotional (情感的) intelligence, you won’t be as successful in work or in your love life,” she says.
What’s the best way to up your EQ (情商）? For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others. 【小题5】
To really develop empathy, you’d better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.
A. Everyone is different, and levels of empathy differ from person to person.
B. That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said.
C. “One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says.
D. Humans learn by example—and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic.
E. Empathy is a matter of learning how to understand someone else—both what they think and how they feel.
F. Good social skills—including empathy—are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life.
G. Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships.
B
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(答案→)B
解析：讲的是empathy，可译为同感、共鸣，可以理解为分享或者理解别人的情绪和感情的某种能力。文章的主题即是以这个empathy的概念进行展开。
【小题1】挖空位置在第1段的段中。空前句提出主题概念，空后句进行简单举例，都表示了人们互相理解的现象在减少，例如关键字包括空前句中had dropped sharply,空后句中less likely to join。所以不难选出答案B选项，其中have replaced face time with screen time这样的信息，包括首次that代词指代作用的体现，以及末尾researchers也照应了空前句的概念提出者researchers from the University of Michigan。
【小题2】挖空位置在第2段的末尾。空前句连续三个表达fighting, peting和with no respect都表现了与文章主题empathy相反的现实例子，72空需要对其进行有效总结。那么也不难得出正确答案即是D选项，关键信息为anything but empathetic，说明的即是空前句的例子与主题相反的逻辑关系，所以非常直观。
【小题3】挖空位置在第3段的中间。空前句提出人类是互相相关或者有联系，空后句继续以主题empathy进行举例说明富有empathy的青少年是如何是好，关键信息包括high self-respect。答案G选项一开头关键词即是讲relationship with other people，即与他人的关系，破折号后的having empathy更是顺应主题empathy方向发展引出空后句的同为顺应主题发展的举例，所以非常符合。
【小题4】挖空位置在第4段的中间。本段首句提出主题empathy下的小主题，empathy也可以指示预示着一个好的领袖。空前句，即本段第2句马上用公司寻找新manager经理的例子形式展开。而空后句出现明显转折现象说明转折后如果不具有emotional intelligence(主题词empathy的同义说法)，带来的不好之处，具体为无法在工作或者爱情中取得成功。观察选项，F直接肯定了emotional intelligence对各个方面成功的重要性，紧密将空前句空后句连接，故为正确答案。
【小题5】挖空位置在第5段的末尾。空前句关键信息叫做listen to others，选项中C选项doesn't having a lot of opinions(有很多意见) 和 doing a lot of talking(说很多话)，正好是双重否定，等于将空前句的意思从另外一个侧面表达了一次，明显是正确选项。