首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, showed
The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, showed
admin
2012-05-28
97
问题
The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, showed that men and women were equally likely to lose their closest friends when they started a new relationship.
Previous research by Dunbar’s group has shown that people typically have five very close relationships — that is, people whom they would turn to if they were in emotional or financial trouble.
"If you go into a romantic relationship, it costs you two friends. Those who have romantic relationships, instead of having the typical five ’core set’ of relationships only have four. And of those, one is the new person who’s come into their life," said Dunbar.
The study, submitted to the journal Personal Relationships, was designed to investigate how people trade off spending time with one person over another and suggests that links with family and closest friends suffer when people start a romantic relationship.
Dunbar’s team used an Internet-based questionnaire to quiz 428 women and 112 men about their relationships. In total, 363 of the participants had romantic partners. The findings suggest that a new love interest has to compensate for the loss of two close friends.
Speaking at the British Science Festival in Birmingham, Professor Dunbar said: "This was a surprise for us. We hadn’t expected it. If you don’t see people, your emotional engagement with them drops off and does so quickly. What I suspect is that your attention is so wholly focused on the romantic partner you don’t get to see the other folks you had a lot to do with before, and so some of those relationships start to deteriorate."
The questionnaire allowed people to mention whether any of their closest confidants (知己) were "extra romantic partners". In all, 32 of those quizzed mentioned having an extra love interest in their life, but these people did not lose four friends as might be expected. Instead, the extra person in their life bumped their original romantic partner out of their innermost circle of friends.
In a separate study, Dunbar’s team looked at how men and women maintained friendships on the social networking website Facebook. They found that women’s Facebook friends were more often friends from everyday life that they spent time with, while men tended to collect as many friends as they could, even if they hardly knew them.
"Boys seem to be in a competition to see who can have the most Facebook friends and that could be a form of mate advertising. One of the cues women use for male quality as a mate is the number of other girls chasing them, so signing up lots of girls as Facebook friends seems to be a good idea," said Dunbar.
According to Dunbar, why do relationships with some old friends deteriorate when people start a romantic relationship?
选项
A、The romantic partner usually doesn’t like the old friends.
B、The romantic partner is usually rejected by the old friends.
C、They don’t have enough time to spend with the old friends.
D、They get tired and don’t like the old friends any more.
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的Dunbar和deteriorate将本题出处定位到第六段引号内的末句。该句提到,根据我(Dunbar)的猜测,当你把全部精力投入到你的恋人身上,你就无暇顾及之前跟你来往密切的朋友,所以你和某些朋友的关系开始变得冷淡。由此可见,人们因谈恋爱而与老朋友关系淡化的原因是他们没有足够的时间陪老朋友,故答案为[C]。[A]“恋人通常不喜欢老朋友”是针对第七段末句设的干扰项。[B]“恋人通常被老朋友拒绝”和[D]“他们感觉厌倦,不再喜欢老朋友”是对文中无中生有的推测,故都排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ouE7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Inrecentyears,researcheshavesuggestedmorehealthvaluefromvitaminDthanhadoncebeenthought.VitaminDis【C1】___
OfalltheemployedworkersintheUnitedStates,12.5millionarepartofatemporaryworkforce.TheUnitedStatesBureauofLa
WaystoTakeIttotheNextLevelNomatterwhatyou’redoing,therecomesatimewhenyouaregoingtowanttotakethings
Itisonlyrightthatthestarsshouldbepaidinthisway.Don’tthetopmeninindustryearn【B1】______salariesfortheservic
Itisonlyrightthatthestarsshouldbepaidinthisway.Don’tthetopmeninindustryearn【B1】______salariesfortheservic
Americansareahighly【B1】______people.Whatfactorscausethemtomove?Thedesireforeconomicbettermentis【B2】______themo
A、Fillsomeforms.B、HaveatestdriveinthePorsche.C、Havelunchwiththewoman.D、Tryhisluckinanothercarrentalcompany
Forcenturies,explorershaveriskedtheirlivesventuringintotheunknownforreasonsthatweretovaryingdegreeseconomican
A、Atthegym.B、Inthepark.C、Onthestreet.D、Atarestaurant.B选项均为表示地点的介词短语表明,本题可能考查某件事情的发生场所。对话中女士提到,Iplannedtogotothe
随机试题
设总体X的分布中带有未知参数0,X1,X2,…,Xn为样本,(X1,X2,…,Xn)和(X1,X2,…,Xn)是参数θ的两个无偏估计.对任意的样本容量n,若为比有效的估计量,则必有()
向日葵、甜菜、高粱和棉花属耐酸性植物。()
一个气缸内有一定量的单原子分子理想气体,在膨胀过程中对外界做功209J,此过程中气体的内能增加120J,则外界传给气体的热量为()。
先张法预应力构件适用的条件是()。
有关内燃机的主要性能指标的描述正确的是()。
根据《企业会计准则第22号——金融工具确认和计量》,长期应付债券溢价折价摊销,应采用的方法是()。
已知:某公司2011年第1~3月实际销售额分别为38000万元、36000万元和41000万元,预计4月份销售额为40000万元。每月销售收入中有70%能于当月收现,20%于次月收现10%于第3个月收现。假定该公司销售的产品在流通环节只需交纳消费税.税率为
老王围着边长为50米的正六边形的草地跑步,他从某个角点出发,跑了500米之后,距离出发点多少米?
根据马克思主义法学观,原始社会的氏族习惯不属于法律的范畴,其主要原因有()。(2012年多选47)
Whatarethetwospeakersmainlydiscussing?Whyisthestudentunfamiliarwiththebookstore’spolicy?
最新回复
(
0
)