B. The study of women’s work contextC. Higher levels of the hormone melatonin may be increasing the risk for breast
cancer
D. The study of breast cancer
【答案】A
【解析】整篇文章在讨论夜晚室外光照与乳腺癌患病之间的关系，A选项准确把握了文意。
Passage two
The news， at its best， is Often an indulgence， a relief， an escape from one’s
own troubles， a flight from the mundane. News is not a civic chore. In fact， to
treat reading the news as a duty is to treat ice cream like mustard greens—to
believe readers must be tricked into eating it， and thus guarantee that they
rarely will.
I’m going to propose that we should read news sites as ice cream—not as an
obligation， but for stimulation， escapism， and even righteousness. At the same
time we must admit to ourselves that—far from being a duty—news in heated times
（and in the age Of Twitter） can often represent a full-tilt compulsion， and thus
a habit to be judiciously managed.
This new avidity and readerly sense of purpose began about a year ago， during
the Psychic upheaval of the presidential primaries， with the repeated shocks to
our society’s manners， morals， and politics. The work of ’being informed’—so
long preached in social studies classes—now felt like the opposite of work. You
didn’t have to force yourself to read the news. You had to force yourself to
take a break.
There is everything to be gained by cultivating a personal stake in the lives of
others， in the future of our nation， and in the world. But reading the front
section as if it were the sports pages， with every line a credit or debit， a
win， or a loss， has hazards. You begin to twist what you read. It’s what happens
when the public’s consumption of news becomes too much about sides， about
winning and losing， and less about empathy for our fellow men.
So how do we combat this？ By increasing our literacy. To become a better reader，
we must borrow practices from higher-order reading， including the reading of
fiction. Remember that the best characters and novels—and every single
flesh-and-blood human and real-life event—mix good and evil. Suspend judgement.
Let yourself be surprised by evidence that doesn’t fit your hypothesis. Take
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