Aristotle defined a friend as "a single soul dwelling in two bodies". How many friends we have, and how easily we make, maintain

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问题     Aristotle defined a friend as "a single soul dwelling in two bodies". How many friends we have, and how easily we make, maintain and lose them, has a significant impact on our emotional well-being.
    It’s no surprise,【C1】______, that friends can improve just about every aspect of our life. Friends can protect us from the【C2】______of bereavement(丧失亲人)or divorce. They don’t even have to be great friends-some of the positive effect is【C3】______down to the company: have a pint with a mate and you’re by definition not socially【C4】______.
    "There are Mends you’re just more【C5】______with. Others may be more interesting, but they may be more offended. Really good friends don’t take offence. Friendships can end because they stop being equal. You may take different【C6】______, have different experiences, which make it harder to maintain a friendship." says educational psychologist Karen Majors.
    We first recognise the importance of friends in childhood. While some of us may retain a few childhood friends, the biggest opportunity for friendship comes in higher education. A study of long-term friendships found that friendships formed during college years stayed close 20 years later, if they scored highly in closeness as well as【C7】______to begin with. "At college you can【C8】______close friendships because you’re in such close【C9】______for sustained periods," says Glenn Sparks, Purdue’s professor of communication. "These relationships are rare and hard to【C10】______; they’re very unusual outside family relationships.
A)proximity I)compromising
B)rather J)comfortable
C)routes K)replicate
D)then L)simply
E)cultivate M)isolated
F)aftershocks N)communication
G)preferable O)possibility
H)connected
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答案E

解析 空格前的情态动词can提示了这里需要填入一个动词,且为原形。词汇库中符合语法的有cultivate和replicate。再根据其后的宾语close friendships,只有cultivate符合句意,表示“培养亲密的友情”。
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