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 friends 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D

解析 该处去掉空格后并不影响对句意的理解,可见这里缺少的是一个副词,可以连接上下义。rather和then都有此功能,但只有then放入句中符合句意,rather则往往含有转折之意。
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