Are teens and young adults more narcissistic (自恋的) today than in the past That’s the view of a California researcher who studies (1) people.
In her new book, The Narcissism (2) : Living in the Age of Entitlement, psychologist Jean Twenge of San Diego State University and (3) W. Keith Campbell of the University of Georgia say research shows (4) young people today have "narcissistic traits" than in (5) generations. Such traits, Twenge says, include a very. (6) and inflated sense of self, which is (7) by a preoccupation with MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.
"We’ve been on this self-admiration cultural (8) for a long time," Twenge says. (9) Twenge’s take on today’s young people isn’t universal. Studies by other researchers, including Canadian (10) Dr. Kali of the University of Western Ontario, have used the same data but found (11) results. "They put a different (12) on it," Kali says.
Twenge’s studies have found more narcissistic traits and a (13) rate of increase among college students today, but Kali found that students’ narcissism was (14) greater in 2006 than in 1976. Twenge’s most recent paper studied the same data as Kali--more than 20 000 college students from 2002 to 2007. (15) researchers used the Narcissistic Personality Inventory to measure narcissistic (16) and findings by both have been (17) in peerreviewed journals.
Twenge’s book (18) just a month after The Mirror Effect : How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America, a book co-written by behavioral (19) Drew Pinsky, (20) suggested that a celebrity-obsessed culture is causing more narcissism.
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A.what
B.whom
C.when
D.which
参考答案:D
解析:
[解题思路] 此从句前有逗号,这里需要的是引导非限制性定语从句的连词,[B]、[C]、[D]都可以。但[B] whom引导非限制性定语从句时,先行词在从句中作宾语,不符合题意;[C] when引导非限制性定语从句时,先行词为表示时间的词。[D] which为最常见的引导非限制性定语从句的词,先行词可以在从句中作主语,因此为正确答案。[A] what通常引导名词性从句,不符合题意。