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
A new partner pushes out two close friends on average, leaving lovers with a smaller inner circle of people they can turn to in
A new partner pushes out two close friends on average, leaving lovers with a smaller inner circle of people they can turn to in
admin
2018-09-15
27
问题
A new partner pushes out two close friends on average, leaving lovers with a smaller inner circle of people they can turn to in times of crisis, a study found.
The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive (认知的) and Evolutionary Anthropology (人类学) at Oxford University, showed that men find 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, Professor Dunbar said: "This was a surprise for us. We hadn’t expected it."
"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 (变糟)."
The questionnaire allowed people to mention whether any of their closest friends 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.
The phrase "very close relationships" (Lines 1-2, Para. 3) refers to_______.
选项
A、romantic relationships
B、intimate friends
C、close partners
D、close relatives
答案
B
解析
该段破折号后的内容对very close relationship作出了解释,指人们身处感情或财政危机时可以求助的人,由前面修饰词five及后面的emotional…trouble,并结合第1段后半句的内容可知这里不可能指“恋人”,故A、C可先排除;这里应指亲密的朋友,B中的intimate与close同义,所以B正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/tV47777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
A、ThepocketmoneyBritishchildrengetB、TheannualinflationrateinBritain.C、ThethingsBritishchildrenspendmoneyon.D、
A、Itallowshimtomakealotoffriends.B、Itrequireshimtoworklonghours.C、Itenableshimtoapplytheorytopractice.D、
A、Harvard.B、Yale.C、Princeton.D、Cornell.A文中提到“演员JohnLithgow是哈佛大学1967届毕业生”,根据问题,选A。
A、Thewaypeoplesleepshowstheirpersonality.B、Itiseasytochangeaperson’ssleepingstyle.C、Crouchedinthefetalpositi
A、EducationproblemsofAmericanchildren.B、EducationproblemsofSyrianchildreninTurkey.C、AstatementpublishedbyHumanR
A、Theseregionsarestillattractingpeoplefromotherareas.B、Thefreezingwinterdrivespeopleawayfromtheseregions.C、Man
A、Cooking.B、Cleaning.C、Skincare.D、Painting.C短文第2句开始谈植物油的用处,提到了cooking,paint和cleaningproducts,只有C项未提及,因而它就是答案。
A、Itsresultswilldisappointmanypeople.B、Itishardtobecarriedoutandhasn’tbeendonebefore.C、Itwillcostahugesum
TheUnitedStates’predominanceinscienceandtechnologyisfading,areportreleasedthismonthbytheNationalScienceBoard
随机试题
Previousstudieshaveshownthatparentswhoeatmorefastfoodandspendmoretimeonthecouchhavekidswhodothesame.And
血淋与尿血的鉴别要点,在于
硬脂酸(硬脂酸为18碳的饱和脂肪酸)彻底氧化成CO2和H2O,净生成ATP数应为
细菌对磺胺产生耐药的主要原因是
关于钢结构铆钉连接的说法中,正确的是()。
英国一项研究发现.咀嚼行为能激活口腔一种名为Th17的免疫细胞,这种免疫细胞能抵御口腔常见的细菌和真菌感染。研究人员在实验室中给小鼠喂食硬度较高的食物,增加它们进食时的咀嚼次数,结果成功导致小鼠的Th17免疫细胞数量上升,证明了咀嚼行为激活相关免疫系统的效
洛克主张通过家庭教育培养绅士。
按照马克思主义的文艺观,原始歌谣起源于:_______。
民间有一种说法:“负债子还,天经地义。”请运用继承法原理对该说法加以辨析。
结合材料,同答问题:材料1在五千年的历史长河中,作为民族精神的核心,爱国主义始终是中华民族团结统一的精神纽带,始终是凝聚力和向心力的基本源泉,始终是推动中国社会发展进步的巨大力量。这种精神,寄托着对民族命运的拳拳之心,倾注了对中华大地的
最新回复
(
0
)