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
2016-04-26
61
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 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, 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.
What was the new finding of Robin Dunbar’s group?
选项
A、People will turn to their close friends when they are in a crisis.
B、People often become less sociable after they have a new partner.
C、People gain a new partner at the cost of losing two close friends.
D、Women tend to lose their close friends more easily than men.
答案
C
解析
文章第1句提到一项研究发现人们谈一次新的恋爱平均会失去两个密友,而由第2段第1句可知,该研究是由Robin Dunbar牵头的,与题干相符,故可确定C为正确答案。C中的at the cost of...意为“以……为代价”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/0we7777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
AreBadEconomicTimesGoodforHealth?A)Mostpeopleareworriedaboutthehealthoftheeconomy.Butdoestheeconomyalsoaff
Backintheday,agoodreportcardearnedyouaparentalpatontheback,butnowitcouldbemoneyinyourpocket.Experiments
人们在喜庆场合燃放焰火(firework)以增加节日气氛。焰火含有化学物质,点燃后会发出颜色形状各异的火花,绚丽夺目。最早关于焰火的记载出现在公元7世纪的中国。早在宋朝(theSongDynasty),中国的普通百姓就可以从市场上买到焰火。焰火被用作庆
Whenitcomestousingtechnologytopromoteeducation,theprevailingwisdomhasbeenthatmoreisbetter.Overthepastdecade
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteacompositiononthetopicStudents’PursuitforFamousBrands.Youshouldwr
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayonthetopicRelationshipBetweenTeachersandStudents.Yoush
Nooneknowsexactlyhowmanydisabledpeoplethereareintheworld,but【C1】______suggestthefigureisover450million.Then
Housingofficialssaythatlatelytheyarenoticingsomethingdifferent:studentsseemtolackthewill,andskill,toaddresst
Haveyoueverthoughtaboutwhatdeterminesthewaywearewhenwegrowup?RemembertheTVprogramSevenUp?Itstartedfollowi
BeautyandBodyImageintheMediaA)Imagesoffemalebodiesareeverywhere.Women—andtheirbodyparts—selleverythingfromfoo
随机试题
《始得西山宴游记》中,作者描写西山之高峻时所运用的表现手法主要是()
Whichofthefollowingwouldbethebesttitleforthepassage?WhichofthefollowingstatementsisNOTtrueaccordingtothe
新时期爱国主义教育的基本指导思想是()
患者,男,80岁。慢支肺气肿病史30年。近1周来出现咳嗽,咳大量黏液脓痰,伴心悸、气喘。查体:呼吸急促、发绀明显,颈静脉怒张、下肢水肿。该患者氧疗时,给氧浓度和氧流量应为
患者,女性,22岁。体检时发现缺铁性贫血。最常见的原因是()
根据《水利工程设计概(估)算编制规定》,水利工程设计概(估)算中的施工用水水价系指()的水价。
A方案在3年中每年年初付款500元,B方案在3、年中每年末付款500元,若利率为10%,则第三年末两个方案的终值相差( )元。
2019年中国居民李某与4个朋友合伙经营一个酒吧,年底酒吧将50万元生产经营所得(未扣除投资者费用)在合伙人中进行平均分配,不考虑专项附加扣除。李某分得的经营所得应缴纳个人所得税()元。
软件危机出现于20世纪60年代末,为了解决软件危机,人们提出了______的原理来设计软件,这就是软件工程诞生的基础。
Lookatthegraphsbelow.Theyshowtheclosingsharepricesattheendofeachday’stradingofeightdifferentcompaniesfrom
最新回复
(
0
)