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For the past several years, I have been immersed in the study of friendship, and among the many things I have learned, one idea

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问题     For the past several years, I have been immersed in the study of friendship, and among the many things I have learned, one idea stands out: If you truly want to change some aspect of your life, developing friendships with people who aspire to the same goals as you do can lead to more successful endeavors than embarking on solitary efforts.
    Shortly after we make a decision to change our behavior, we often sense a softening of what at first felt like ironclad conviction. We blame ourselves for our inability to summon motivation and return to the poor habits we’re trying to break to comfort us, actively undenrdning our goals. What a disheartening cycle. But research shows that having friends with the same goal can interrupt that cycle.
    Researchers James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis have demonstrated that weight loss (and gain) spreads through friend groups, most likely via a process of altered norms. It’s not that you’ll necessarily adopt your friend’s new habits right away, but the seed will be planted. If you want to continue to feel close to her, you might even start adjusting your own routines (perhaps unconsciously) to align them more with hers.
    Friends can help you reinforce individual willpower. In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg recommends replacing the cues that trigger, and the rewards that follow, bad behaviors with new, healthier ones. The cue and reward of a real person knocking on your door for a joint jog, and a stimulating talk over coffee afterwards, is a particularly alluring replacement for whatever previously sucked you into sedentary TV watching.
    In a recent New York Times column, "How People Change," David Brooks noted that, "There’s a research suggesting that it’s best to tackle negative behaviors indirectly, by redirecting attention toward different, positive ones." Investing in fulfilling friendships with those who have the values and habits you admire will lift you up to those friends’ level more easily.
    The desire to be with, be like, and be liked by friends is primal. We’re all built to seek out strong bonds with friends on whom our very survival might have once been dependent. While we don’t necessarily need friends to help hunt or fight off predators these days, most of us probably still feel like we can’t live without them. Tap into that deep-down social motivation and you’ll not only be primed for success, you’ll take pleasure in the proverbial journey.
According to Paragraph 2, a determination to change a behavior is often closely followed by ________.
选项 A、a solid belief
B、a convincing sense
C、a weakened willpower
D、a disappearing motivation
答案C
解析 根据题干可直接定位到第二段，答案出现在该段第一句。第一句提到在人们下定决心之后，原先那斩钉截铁的意志常常很快会松懈。题干中的determination一词对应该句中逗号前的make a decision，C项的a weakened willpower与原句中的a softening of，意思一致，因此本题选C项。A项和B项都是肯定的内容，与该段第一句中的a softening的否定含义不一致，故而可首先排除。D项是一个较强的干扰项，虽然出现了该段第二句中的motivation一词，但是disappearing的意思是“消失”，它夸大了softening的含义，不如C项准确；此外，C项中的willpower和D项中的motivation相比，与文章中的conviction一词在含义上也更为接近。
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