根据短文内容，从短文的后选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中的两项为多余选项。
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
网友回答
(答案→)B
解析：文章主要讲述的是同情心的问题。同情心，作为理解他人的一种能力，在大学生中，普遍下降了很多。文章分析了同情心下滑的原因，也给出了培养同情心的建议。
【小题1】根据“empathy, ...had dropped sharply”和“people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs...”可以判断出前后句是因果关系，空白处前面说，同情心急剧下降；后面说人们更多时间处于独处状态，很少参加集体活动。这正是同情心下降的原因。故选B。
【小题2】根据“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.”可知，同情心下降的另一个原因是，电视上打斗、竞争、不尊重他人的例子的影响。D项“most of the examples on it”中的it指电视。故选D。
【小题3】根据“Humans are socially related by nature.”可知，人天生就是社会性的，和他人发生联系，是作为人而必不可少的一部分。故选G。
【小题4】根据“...if you don’t have emotional (情感的) intelligence, , you won’t be as successful in work or in your love life...”可知，这里谈到，empathy也是一种社交技能。故选F。
【小题5】根据“For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others.”放下防御心理，真正做到倾听他人，这是提高EQ的方法。故选C。