Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed people’s natural relations, loosened their responsibilities to kin (亲戚) and neighbors, and substituted in their place superficial relationships with passing acquaintances. However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the "obvious" is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community. But, for the most part, this fact has few significant consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.
Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ between more and less urban people. Small-town residents are more involve
A. Two contrasting views are presented.
B. An argument is examined and possible solutions given.
C. Research results concerning the quality of urban life are presented in order of time.
D. A detailed description of the difference between urban and small-town life is given.
Most boys, and many girls too, have at some time or other started a stamp collection. Stamp-collecting, or, to call it (21) its correct name, philately, (22) an increasing popular hobby from as (23) as 1854 -- for less than two decades (十年) after postage stamps (24) . Today the hobby numbers (25) are not only boys and girls, but also men and women from all ranks (阶层) in society. So rapidly (26) the interest in stamp-collecting increase in the United States of America (27) in 1921 the United States Post Office found itself (28) set up a special department to (29) the needs of collectors. At present the yearly (30) of this department total over three hundred thousand dollars.
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