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The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, showed

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问题     The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology 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 roman-tic 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 in Birmingham, Professor Dunbar said: "This was a surprise for us. We hadn’t expected it. If you don’t see people, your emotional engagement with them drops off and does so quickly. 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."
    The questionnaire allowed people to mention whether any of their closest confidants(知己，密友)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.
    In a separate study, Dunbar’s team looked at how men and women maintained friendships on the social networking website Facebook. They found that women’s Facebook friends were more often friends from everyday life that they spent time with, while men tended to collect as many friends as they could, even if they hardly knew them.
    "Boys seem to be in a competition to see who can have the most Facebook friends and that could be a form of mate advertising. One of the cues women use for male quality as a mate is the number of other girls chasing them, so signing up lots of girls as Facebook friends seems to be a good idea," said Dunbar.
According to the research led by Robin Dunbar, what will happen if people start a new relationship?
选项 A、They will manage to stay in contact with all of their friends.
B、They will lose two friends and get one romantic partner.
C、They will move and start a life that is completely different.
D、They are likely to have emotional or financial trouble.
答案B
解析 根据题干中的the research led by Robin Dunbar和start a new relationship将本题出处定位于首段，但是首段只是单纯地对Dunbar观点的陈述，对此观点的具体解释出现在第3段，故答案应该在第3段找。该处提到，Dunbar说： “如果你谈起恋爱，你就要失去两个朋友。谈恋爱的人不再有通常的五个‘核心朋友’，而只剩下四个。并且里面有一个是新来的，要融入到他们的生活中。”也就是说，当人们开始一段新恋情的时候，他们将失去两个好朋友，同时也会得到一个恋人，故答案为B)。A)与文中的it costs you two friends矛盾，故排除；C)是对文中这段信息的过度推测，故排除；D)是对第2段中的if they werein emotional or financial trouble设的干扰项。
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