Ⅰ.阅读理解
When you feel like everyone around you is having more fun and spending more time with friends, it can make you feel bad about yourself — even if it's not true.A study published by Whillans and her colleagues on Thursday found that 48 percent of college freshmen in their second semester at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver believed that their friends had made more friends than they had since school began.31 percent felt the opposite.
“Since social activities, like eating or studying with others, tend to happen in cafes and libraries where they are easily seen, students might overestimate (过高估计) how much their friends are socializing because they don't see them eating and studying alone，”says Frances Chen, the study's senior author and an assistant professor in the UBC psychology department.
A second, smaller study they published at the same time indicates that feeling left out made the students pretty unhappy.This was surprising, Whillans says, because many highachieving people — i．e.the ones most likely going to college — believe they're better equipped than their peers to handle challenges.But when peers appear to be doing better socially, that can contribute to feelings that there's something wrong with us.
Greg Walton, a psychologist at Stanford University, studies how to correct the belief that we are alone in our fears of being left out.His work focuses on helping minority students who are underrepresented (代表性不足) in STEM fields to overcome their own fears that they don't belong, and has showed that doing so helps them improve academically and healthwise.He says Whillans' study indicates that a lot of people could benefit from things like having older students share stories of how they felt left out socially as freshmen, or encouraging teachers to put criticism of students' work in a more positive way.He says, “Everybody starts in different places.It's critical (in college) to explore and find new communities and places and new ways to develop.Sometimes that goes faster and sometimes that goes slower.”
语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。很多大一新生都有孤独感，认为同龄人比自己交的朋友多。Whillans教授及其同事对这一课题进行了研究。
1．What did the first study by the Professor Whillans find?
A．Fewer college freshmen feel lonely.
B．Fewer college freshmen don't like entering a college.
C．More students believe their friends are more social.
D．More students think their friends' school began later.
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据第一段的内容可知，Whillans教授的研究表明很多学生认为他们的朋友更善于社交。
2．What does Frances Chen think of students' loneliness?
A．It is out of control.
B．It is common among students.
C．Many students can handle it.
D．It leads to more social activities.
解析：选B 推理判断题。根据第二段中Frances Chen 所说的话可知，由于社交活动往往发生在咖啡馆和图书馆这样很容易被看到的地方，因此学生可能高估了他们朋友的社交量，因为他们没有看到他们独自吃饭和学习。由此可推断出，学生中的孤独感是很普遍的。
3．What does the underlined word“This”in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．Students like being left alone.
B．People don't like going to college.
C．Students feel upset about missing out.
D．Students believe they're better off than their friends.
解析：选C 词义猜测题。根据上下文可知，this指的是他们的研究结果，即被冷落的感觉让学生们非常不开心。
4．What does Walton suggest students do to fight against feeling lonely?
A．Quit their university and find another.
B．Improve themselves and leave it behind.
C．Be more critical to what happens around them.
D．Communicate more about it with their teachers.
解析：选B 推理判断题。根据最后一段中的Everybody starts in different places.It's critical (in college) to explore and find new communities and places and new ways to develop.可知，Walton认为在大学里，探索和发现新的团体、地点和新的发展方式是很重要的，故选B。
