四六级考试

【单选题】The research, led by RobinDunbar, head of the Institute ofCognitive andEvolutionaryAnthropology at Oxford University, showed that men and women were equally likely to lose their closest friends when they started a new relationship.
Previous research byDunbar’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," saidDunbar.
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 theBritish Science Festival inBirmingham, ProfessorDunbar 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) 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," saidDunbar.
What is mainly discussed in this passage

A、Ways to start a romantic relationship. B、Why people have five very close friends.
C、The results of having a romantic partner.D、How to make more friends on Facebook.
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[解析] 本文首段开篇点题，提出人们在开始一段恋情时都会失去一些最亲密的朋友这一观点，然后详细论述了Dunbar团队对这一问题的研究过程，因此本文的主题就是拥有恋人的后果，故答案为[C]。文中未提到怎样开始一段恋情，故排除[A]；文中也未提到人们为什么会有五个亲密朋友，故排除[B]；文中倒数第二段对比了不同性别是如何在社交网上交友的，[D]“如何在Facebook上交更多的朋友”是针对这段设的干扰项，不能概括全文，故排除。 [设题分析] 主旨处设题。英语文章一般会有主旨句，往往出现在开头和结尾，因此阅读文章时一定要注意首尾。本文开篇就点题，因此不难找到答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>