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
2013-07-11
31
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.
The phrase "very close relationships"(Lines 1-2, Para. 3)refers to______.
选项
A、romantic relationships
B、intimate friends
C、close partners
D、close relatives
答案
B
解析
该段破折号后的内容对very close relationship作出了解释,指人们身处感情或财政危机时可以求助的人,由前面修饰词five及后面的emotional...trouble,并结合第1段后半句的内容可知这里不可能指“恋人”.故A、C可先排除;这里应指亲密的朋友,B中的intimate与close同义,所以B正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/oR07777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
AmericansandFoodAnunusualbuttimelycartoonrecentlyappearedinthelocalnewspaper.Thesinglepanelshowedagravel-
A、Parents.B、Children.C、Breadwinners.D、Bankmanagers.B预览选项可知,本题可能考查短文的目标读者是谁。由短文中提到的aren’t…breadwinner,allowance及Forkids推断,短
Theotherdaymysonaskedmeifhecouldrideuptohiselementaryschoolonhisbikeandmeethisfriend.Hewantedthebotho
ThecurrentemergencyinMexicoCitythathastakenoverourlivesisnothingIcouldeverhaveimaginedformeormychildren.
I’veworkedinthefactoriessurroundingmyhometowneverysummersinceIgraduatedfromhighschool,butmakingthetransition
PassportsIfyou’veevertraveledoutsidetheUnitedStates,oneofthemostimportanttasksyouhadtocompletebeforeyour
A、Sheisinterestedintheory.B、Sheisinterestedinclassicalliterature.C、Sheisinterestedinwriting.D、Sheisinterested
A、Becausethetimeofaperiodistoolong.B、Becausetheyarelackofsleep.C、Becausetheyarenotinterestedintheclass.D、
A、Doextraworkifnecessary.B、Changethesparkplugsonly.C、Cleanthesparkplugsonly.D、Chargehermorethan£10ifnecess
A、2:30pm.B、3:30pm.C、4:30下午D、5:00下午B数字细节题。四个选项都是表示时间的词,可推断问题是关于事件发生的时间。男士提到他们的传真机要到2:30才能修好,所以要求女士在3:30把资料传真给他,故选项B正确。
随机试题
毛泽东在中共七届三中全会上指出,实现国家财政经济状况根本好转的条件是()
丙型肝炎的主要传播途径是
对于唾液分泌的调节,恰当的是
支原体肺炎诊断的主要依据为
自汗的临床表现是黄汗的临床表现是
某大学陈教授2014年11月取得如下收入:(1)工资收入4800元;(2)—次性稿费收入5000元;(3)—次性讲学收入500元;(4)—次性翻译资料收入3000元;(5)到期国债利息收入1286元;(6)为某公司提供技术咨询,一次性取得报酬2
(2009年卷二第98题)根据行政诉讼法及相关规定,下列关于行政诉讼的说法哪些是正确的?
TheWhiteHouseWegotupearlythismorningand【C1】______alongwalkafterbreakfast.Wewalkedthroughthebusinesssectio
WorkshoptoFocusonGrantProcessLauraChinwillpresentaworkshopThursdayshowingnonprofitgroupshowtoapplyforNeig
In2011,manyshopperschosetoavoidthefranticcrowdsanddotheirholidayshoppingfromthecomfortoftheircomputer.Sales
最新回复
(
0
)