四六级考试

【单选题】Research on friendship has established a number of facts, some interesting, even useful.Did you know that the average student has 5～6 friends, or that a friend who was previously an enemy is liked more than one who has always been on the right side Would you believe that physically attractive individuals are preferred as friends to those less comely, and is it fair that physically attractive defendants are less likely to be found guilty in court Unfortunately, such titbits don’’t tell us much more about the nature or the purpose of friendship. In fact, studies of friendship seem to implicate more complex factors. For example, one function friendship seems to fulfill is that supports the image we have of ourselves, and confirms the value of the attitudes we holD、Certainly we appear to project ourselves onto our friends; several studies have shown that we judge them to be more like us than they (objectively) are. This suggests that we ought to choose friends who are similar to us rather than those who would be complementary. In our experiment, some developing friendships were monitored amongst first-year students living in the same hostel. It was found that similarity of attitudes (towards politics, religion and ethics, pastimes and aesthetics) was a good predictor of what friendships would be established by the end of four months, though it has less to do with initial alliances not surprisingly, since attitudes may not be obvious on first inspection. There have also been studies of pairings, both voluntary (married couples) and forced (student roommates), to see which remained together and which split up.Again, the evidence seems to favor similarity rather than complementarity as an omen of successful relationship, though there is a complication: where marriage is concerned, once the field is narrowed down to potential mates who come from similar backgrounds and share a broad range of attitudes and values, a degree of complementarity Seems to become desirable. When a couple are not just similar but almost identical, something else seems to be needeD、Similarity can breed contempt it; it has also been found that when we find others obnoxious, we dislike them more if they are like us than when they are dissimilar. The difficulty of linking friendship with similarity of personality probably reflects the complexity of our personalities: we have many facets and therefore require a disparate group of friends to support us. This of course can explain why we may have two close friends who have little in common, and indeed dislike each other.By and large, though, it looks as though we would do well to choose friends(and spouses) who resemble us. If this were not so, computer dating agencies would have gone out of business years ago. The experiment conducted on students living in a hostel suggested that______.
A、it was impossible to predict which’’ friendships would develop

B、in the long run, people get on better with those who are like them
C．students split up as soon as they discovered differences in attitudes
D．students immediately recognized others with similar attitudes and interests

网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
事实细节题。题干的出处在第二段最后一句，观点的相似性预示着友谊能够在四个月快要结束时建立起来(similarity of attitudes was a good predictor of what friendships would be established by the end of four months)，由 predictor 一词可排除[A]项。最初的联合影响不大，因为一开始人们的观点并不明显，由此可排除[D]项，[B]项符合原文内容。[C]属于主观臆断，原文没有提到学生一发现观点不同就分开。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>