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正确答案：A
Mostpeoplefeellonelysometimes，butitusuallyonlylastsbetweenafewminutesandafewhours．Forsomepeople，though，lonelinesscanlastforyears．Psychologistsarestudyingthiscomplexphenomenonandhaveidentifiedthreedifferenttypesofloneliness．Thefirstkindoflonelinessistemporary．Itusuallydisappearsquicklyanddoesnotrequireanyspecialattention．(23)Thesecondkind，situationalloneliness，isanaturalresultofaparticularsituation，forexample，adivorceormovingtoanewplace．Althoughthiskindoflonelinesscancausephysicalproblems，itusuallydoesnotlastformorethanayear．Unlikethesecondtype，thethirdkindoflonelinessusuallylastsmorethantwoyearsandhasnospecificcause．(24)Peoplewhoexperiencehabituallonelinesshaveproblemsocializingandbecomingclosetoothers．Unfortunately，manyofthemthinkthereislittleornothingtheycandoaboutit．Psychologistsagreethatoneimportantfactorinlonelinessisaperson"ssocialcontacts，forexample，friends，familymembers，etc．Wedependonvariouspeoplefordifferentreasons．Forinstance，ourfamiliesgiveusemotionalsupportandourfriendssharesimilarinterestsandactivities．However，psychologistshavefoundthatthenumberofsocialcontactswehaveisnottheonlyreasonforloneliness．Itismoreimportanthowmanysocialcontactswethinkorexpectweshouldhave．(25)Inotherwords，thoughlonelypeoplemayhavemanysocialcontacts，theysometimesfeeltheyshouldhavemore．Theyquestiontheirownpopularity．未听先知预览三道题各选项，其中出现了大量带有负面含义的词，如cannotmixwell，irrationallyannoy，dependheavilyon，blameothers，doubt和psychologicallyweak等，并且第23题的各选项中还出现了treatment一词，据此推断本文可能与某种不正常的精神状态相关．Whatdoesthespeakersayaboutsituationalloneliness?A．详解短文中提到了三种类型的孤独，其中第二类为情景孤独，而短文中在对这一类孤独的介绍中指出，它通常是由于环境的变化所引起的，故答案为A．．