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  3. Friendship is a lot like food. We need it to survive. What is more, we seem to have a basic drive for it. Psychologists find tha

Friendship is a lot like food. We need it to survive. What is more, we seem to have a basic drive for it. Psychologists find tha

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问题     Friendship is a lot like food. We need it to survive. What is more, we seem to have a basic drive for it. Psychologists find that human beings have fundamental need for inclusion in group life and for close relationships. We are truly social animals.

    The result is, we function best when this social need is met. It is easier to stay motivated, to meet the varied challenges of life.
    In fact, evidence has been growing that when our need for social relationships is not met, we fall apart mentally and even physically. There are effects on the brain and on the body. Some effects work subtly, through the exposure of multiple body systems to excess amounts of the hormones of stress. Yet the effects are distinct enough to be measured over time, so that unmet social needs take a serious toll on health, eroding our arteries, creating high blood pressure, and even undermining learning and memory.
    A lack of close friends and a dearth of broader social contact generally bring the emotional discomfort or distress known as loneliness. It begins with an awareness of a deficiency of relationships. This cognitive awareness plays through our brain with an emotional soundtrack. It makes us sad. We might feel emptiness. We may be filled with a longing for contact. We feel isolated, distanced from others, deprived. These feelings tear away at our emotional well-being.
    Despite the negative effects of loneliness, it can hardly be considered abnormal. It is a most normal feeling. Everyone feels lonely sometimes — after a break-up with a friend or lover, when we move to a new place, when we are excluded from some social gathering.
    Chronic loneliness is something else entirely. It is one of the surest markers in existence for maladjustment.
    In children, it leads to all kinds of problems. Failure to be socially connected to peers is the real reason behind most school dropouts. It sets in motion a course on which children spin their way to outcast status and develop delinquency and other forms of antisocial behavior.
    In adults, loneliness is a major precipitant of depression and alcoholism. And it increasingly appears to be the cause of a range of medical problems, some of which take decades to show up.
    Loneliness sets in motion a variety of "slowly unfolding pathpophysiological processes". The net result is that the lonely experience higher levels of cumulative wear and tear.
    In other words, we are built for social contact. There are serious — life-threatening — consequences when we don’t get enough. We can’t stay on track mentally. And we are compromised physically. Social skills are crucial for your health.
What does the author intend to convey by saying " friendship is a lot like food"(Line I, Para. 1)?
选项 A、We are truly social animals.
B、We cannot function without friendship.
C、Friendship is very important to us.
D、Friendship is easily got.
答案B
解析 语义理解题。该句后是对这句话的进一步解释说明：我们需要友谊生存，此外，我们有一种追求友谊的本能，作者将友谊与生存和本能联系起来，可见对我们来说很重要，故[C]项正确。[A]项不是作者表达的意图，第二段首句指出我们对友谊的需求得到满足时，我们的发挥能够达到最好程度，这里用best指出friendship影响的是我们做事的程度，故[B]项错误，从下文可以看出文中没有就如何获得友谊展开说明，故[D]项也不是作者想表达的意思。
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