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A LACK OF COMMUNICATION
Recent research has revealed that a third of people in Britain have not met their (1) _____ neighbors, and those who know each other barely speak. Neighbors gossiping over garden fences and in the street was a common sight in the 1950s, says Dr Carl Chinn, an expert on local communities. Now, however, longer hours spent working at the office, together with the Internet and satellite television, are eroding neighborhood (2) _____. “Poor neighborhoods once had strong kinship, but now prosperity buys privacy,” said Chinn.
Professor John Locke, a social scientist at Cambridge University, had analyzed a large number of surveys. He found that in America and Britain the amount of time spent in social activity is decreasing. A third of people said they never spoke to their neighbors at all. Andrew Mayer, 25, a strategy consultant, rents a large apartment in west London, with two flatmates, who work in e-commerce. “We have a family of teachers upstairs and lawyers below, but our only contact comes via letters (3)____ to the communal facilities or complaints that we’ve not put out our bin bags properly,” said Mayer.
The (4) ______ of communities can have serious effects. Concerned at the rise in burglaries and acts of vandalism, the police have relaunched crime prevention schemes such as Neighborhood Watch, calling on people who live in the same area to (5) _______ an eye on each other’s houses and report anything they sees which is unusual.
Đáp án đúng: C. breakdown: sự tan vỡ
The breakdown of communities can have serious effects: Sự tan vỡ của cộng đồng có thể có những ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng.
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