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Questions are based on the following passage.
Research on friendship has established a number of facts, some interesting, even useful.Did you knowthat the average student has 5 to 6 friends, or that a friend who was previously an enemy is liked more thanone who has always been on the right side? Would you believe that physically attractive individuals arepreferred as friends to those less comely, and is it fair that physically attractive defendants are less likely to befound guilty in court? Unfortunately, such titbits (趣闻,轶闻 ) don't tell us much more about the nature orthe purpose of friendship.
In fact, studies of friendship seem to implicate more complex factors.For example, one functionfriendship seems to fulfill is that supports the image we have of ourselves, and confirms the value of theattitudes we hold.Certainly we appear to project ourselves onto our friends; several studies have shown thatwe judge them to be more like us than they objectively are.This suggests that we ought to choose friendswho are similar to us rather than those who would be complementary.In our experiment, some developingfriendships were monitored amongst first year students living in the same hostel.It was found that similarityof attitudes (towards politics, religion and ethics, pastimes and aesthetics) was a good predictor of whatfriendships 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 (studentroommates), to see which remained together and which split up.Again, the evidence seems to favorsimilarity 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 similarbackgrounds and share a broad range of attitudes and values, a degree of complementarity seems to becomedesirable.When a couple are not just similar but almost identical, something else seems to be needed.Similarity can breed contempt; it has also been found that when we find others obnoxious, we dislike themmore if they are like us than when they are dissimilar.
The difficulty of linking friendship with similarity of personality probably reflects the complexity ofour personalities: we have many facets and therefore require a disparate group of friends to support us.Thisof course can explain why we may have two close friends who have little in common and indeed dislikeeach other.By and large, though, it looks as though we would do well to choose friends (and spouses) whoresemble us.If this were not so, computer dating agencies would have gone out of business years ago.
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Research on friendship has demonstrated that__________.

A．every student has five to six friends
B．judges are always influenced by a pretty face
C．ugly people find it harder to make friends than beautiful people
D．we tend to grow fond of people if we dislike them at first sight

参考答案C

解析:C

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B．are looking for sympathy
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单选题The experiment conducted on students living in one hostel suggested that__________.

A．it was impossible to predict which friendships would develop
B．in the long ran, 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

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A．opposites get on better than similar personalities
B．exactly the same bases for success apply for ordinary, friendships
C．it is first of all necessary to limit prospective partners to people from similar backgrounds
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