An American study of 10,000 students found that if you make more friends than the average person at school, you’ll receive a higher salary in later life. People need good social skills at work to work in a team successfully.
On average, teenagers aged between 15 and 17 have 500 “friends” on their favorite social networking sites. Adults have 130. So if you believe this research, you might be very rich.
Among these 150, around 5 people are close friends.
If you have a lot of online “friends”, try this experiment: First take away anyone you haven’t been in touch with for a year. Then remove those you cannot remember and, finally, take away friends who you wouldn’t mind losing touch with. How many have you left? How many of these people are actually good friends?
A.You are not close to them. |
B.And finally, there’s a large group of 100. |
C.You’ve most likely known them for long. |
D.However, it probably won’t make any difference. |
E.These are the same skills we use to make friends at school. |
F.They’ve found that having good friends can help you live longer. |
G.According to the research, these are the only people that really matter. |
Researchers used information from the Framingham Study, which began in 1948. The Framingham Study gathers information about physical and mental( 心 理 的 ) health, personal behavior and diet. At first, the study involved about 5,000 people in the American state of Massachusetts. Now, more than 12,000 persons are taking part.
Information from the Framingham Study showed earlier that happiness can spread from person to person. So can behaviors like littering and the ability to stop smoking.
University of Chicago psychologist (心理学家) John Cacioppo led the recent study. He and other researchers tried to show how often people felt lonely. They found that the feeling of loneliness spread through social groups.
Having a social connection with a lonely person increased the chances that another person would feel lonely. In fact, a friend of a lonely person was 52% more likely to develop feelings of loneliness. A friend of that person was 25% more likely. The researchers say this shows that a person could indirectly be affected by someone’s loneliness.
The effect was strongest among friends. Neighbors were the second most affected group. The effect was weaker on husbands and wives, and brothers and sisters. The researchers also found that loneliness spread more easily among women than men.
The New York Times newspaper reports that, on average, people experience feelings of loneliness about 48 days a year. It also found that every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half fewer lonely days.
Loneliness has been something to do with health problems like sadness and sleeping difficulties. The researchers believe that knowing the causes of loneliness could help in reducing it.
The study suggests that people can take steps to stop the spread of loneliness. They can do this by helping individuals they know who may be experiencing loneliness. The result can be helpful to the whole social group.
【小题1】What is true about the Framingham Study?A.It involves more than 12,000 participants. | B.It was only carried out in 1948. |
C.It was led by John Cacioppo. | D.It showed that any behavior could spread. |
A.the habit of littering doesn’t spread |
B.a lonely person won’t have friends |
C.everyone may be affected by others’ loneliness |
D.lonely people don’t know the cause of their loneliness |
A.The spreading effect was the second strongest among friends. |
B.Women are more likely to be affected than men. |
C.No spreading effect was found on husbands and wives. |
D.Brothers are more easily affected than neighbors. |
A.48 days | B.20 days |
C.25 days | D.15 days |
It is rightly said that one can share any secret with a true friend. He may know your deepest fears and weaknesses and yet will never take advantage of you. However, keeping a friend’s secrets to yourself and not telling the world is what makes the bond grow strong and last forever. You need to develop trust and mutual understanding before you start sharing secrets with each other. With friends, secret talks never seem to end and it can get really amusing to know what has been going on in your friend’s mind.
There is a certain time in life especially from the teenage years when one starts having a personal periphery in life and parents are excluded from it. It is because there are certain things that they can’t understand and we can’t discuss with them. That is when friends become the best secret sharers. They are the ones to whom one reveals one’s feelings and best kept secrets.
It is a general belief that only girls share secrets. But boys have their own secrets that they discuss with only closest friends. The secret talks can range from relationships, talks about fights with parents, secret activities and anything that is not supposed to be known to others! If you think secrets are limited to only teenagers, get your facts right! Secrets can be shared at any age and there is no hard and fast rule that secrets are shared only among youngsters.
Sharing secrets with a friend is not just fun, but it also helps to develop a lasting trust in one another. Sometimes, sharing secrets will tell you more about the person. You will come to know whether your friend is reliable and trustworthy and whether it is worth sharing your secrets with them. You can call it a test of friendship.
【小题1】What do you need to do before sharing secrets?A.To know about deepest fears and weaknesses. |
B.To develop trust and mutual understanding. |
C.To know what has been going on in people’s mind. |
D.To consider whether she or he is your best friend. |
A.friend | B.preference | C.limit | D.rule |
A.Boys often share secrets with friends. | B.Teenagers tell more secrets than adults. |
C.Secrets sharing can happen at any age. | D.Secrets sharing will follow strict rules. |
A.Sharing Secrets Is a Test of Friendship | B.How to Make Close Friends in One’s Life |
C.Whether It Is Worth Sharing Your Secrets | D.The Best People to Share Secrets With |
About five years ago I started at a new school when my family moved to Iowa. I was just a little excited, but I worried I would never fit in with (适应) the other sixth graders.
Lucy, a girl in my class, who I thought was not ready for change, didn’t like me from the start. In fact, I was sure she hated me. I could tell she thought I was a fool.
My teacher made us sit by each other for the last term. Lucy was surprised that I didn’t wear makeup (化妆). I didn’t exactly look like the coolest girl. But, I kept smiling at her, though she rolled her eyes, and I kept telling her she looked beautiful, even when she was angry.
Finally, Lucy let me talk to her, even in sight of her “cool” friends. She started telling me how beautiful I looked. I still remember that first time when she smiled at me saying that, and I smiled right back, telling her thanks. Lucy invited me over to her house for a party, and talked to me all the time instead of her other friends.
I may move to Arizona after that, but I will never forget Lucy. She was a great friend. I still smiled at Lucy when she made fun of me. I’m not stupid, I didn’t think she was right in doing those things, but I still put up with (忍受) it. And we became great friends.
About two weeks ago, I read a sentence by Abraham Lincoln: “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” Immediately, I smiled, thinking of Lucy.
【小题1】When the author started at a new school in Iowa, she worried ________.A.she couldn’t get along well with her classmates |
B.she looked stupid when asking questions |
C.she didn’t look like the coolest girl in her class |
D.she was not ready for change at all |
A.By wearing makeup. | B.By wearing beautiful clothes. |
C.By keeping smiling at Lucy. | D.By sitting beside Lucy in class. |
A.it was a waste of time to make friends with Lucy |
B.it was right of her to suffer when making friends |
C.it was foolish of her to smile at Lucy all the time |
D.it was a shameful thing to put up with what Lucy did |
A.Making friends means losing enemies. | B.Friendship needs to be cared for. |
C.Kindness can beat any enemy. | D.Patience is important in making friends. |
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