______ social ties help build communities and protect individuals against stress.A.Enhanci
______ social ties help build communities and protect individuals against stress.
A.Enhancing
B.Enforcing
C.Strengthening
D.Confirming
______ social ties help build communities and protect individuals against stress.
A.Enhancing
B.Enforcing
C.Strengthening
D.Confirming
Social companionship is beneficial in that ________
A.it helps strengthen our ties with relatives
B.it enables us to eliminate our faults and mistakes
C.it makes our leisure-time activities more enjoyable
D.it draws our attention away from our worries and troubles
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
A、social media
B、face-to-face interaction
C、more interaction and communication between entities
D、All of above
Even among the social insects something like imprinting【32】influence social behavior. For example, biologists once thought bees communicated with others purely【33】instinct. But, in examining a "dance" that bees do to indicate the distance and direction of a pollen source, observers found that bees raised in isolation could not communicate effectively. At a higher level, the genetic base seems to be much more for an all-purpose learning rather than the more specific responses of imprinting. Chimpanzees, for instance, generally【34】very good mother but Jane Goodall reports that some chimps carry the infant. upside down or【35】fail to nurture the young.
(21)
A.assumed
B.adopted
C.believed
D.surmised
Friendship and Living Longer
Do you want to be healthier and live longer? Spend time with your friends. That is the prescription given by several medical studies. These surveys show that people with strong social ties--to friends, family and loved ones, even pets live longer and enjoy better health than lonely people.
One study in California, for example, followed 7,000 people over a period Of nine years. The subjects were asked to describe their social ties. Some said that they were isolated from others. These subjects had death rates two or three times higher than people with families and friends.
The stronger the social ties to others, the study found, the lower the death rate. The pattern held true for men and women, young and old, rich and poor. The race of the subject did not change the result. It also applied to people with different life styles. Cigarette smokers who had friends lived longer than friendless smokers. Joggers involved with other people lived longer than joggers who lived isolated lives.
Another study confirms this result. The University of Michigan looked at 2,754 adults in Tecumseh, Michigan. The researchers carefully measured their subjects' health at the beginning of the study. The lonely, isolated people started out as healthy as the others. But over ten years, they were two to four times as likely to die.
Other findings also show the health value of personal ties. Married men and women tend to live longer than single, divorced or widowed people of the same age. In nursing homes, patients became more aware and responsive when they played with cats and dogs. Pet owners are more likely to survive heart attacks than people without pets.
Another kind of proof that social ties support good health comes from Japan. Most Japanese people live hectic lives in cities as crowded, noisy, and polluted as ours. Such a way of life seems unhealthy. Yet the Japanese are among the healthiest and longest-lived people in the world. One reason may be their diet. Another reason, though, is the way of life. The Japanese have strong ties to family and co-workers. These ties are rarely broken. For example, companies tend to move co-workers as a group, rather than one at a time. Thus the work groups remain the same.
Studies of Japanese-Americans support the importance of the role of Japanese social life in preserving their health. Japanese-Americans who live in strongly Japanese neighborhoods and have mainly Japanese friends tend to live longer than those who do not. Both groups eat mostly American-style. food and many in both groups smoke and drink. Thus it appears to be the strong social ties of Japanese communities that keep their members healthy.
Why is it more healthy to have friends and loved ones? We don't know exactly. But it is probably a combination of several explanations. In part, people with strong social ties may simply have more to live for. They have loved ones or family who share their lives. They have friends who call them and ask them how they are doing. They have get-togethers to look forward to.
Social contacts also provide us with a buffer against the shocks of life. At some point, each of us moves, changes a job, or loses a loved one. Such abrupt changes tend to cause increase in the rates of many diseases. These include heart disease, cancer, strokes, and mental illnesses. Accidents are also more likely to happen to people whose lives have suddenly changed. Friends, loved ones, even a loyal dog can help us to get through the otherwise very rough changes that we must deal with in life.
Finally, friends and loved ones can affect our health in still another way. If we are smokers, they may help us to quit. If we overeat, they may urge us to cut back. They can remind us to go for medical checkups. And if we have fears or sadness bottled up inside us, friends
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
根据材料请回答 45~49
Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our in-terpersonal relationships.46 Social support consists of the exchange of resources a- mong people based on their interpersonal ties.Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with major life changes and daily hassles (困难)47 .Studiesover a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, reveal that the presence of so-cial support helps people fend off (挡开) illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely.
48 .First, friends, relatives, and co-workers may let us.know that they value us.49 .Second other people.Of ten provide us with informational support. 50 .Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting us from our worries and troubles.Finally, other people may give us instrumental support, financial aid, material resources, and needed services that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.
A.People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties
B.They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them
C.Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties
D.Social support cushions (缓解) stress in a number of ways
E.Helping a sick neighbor with some repair work is an example of social companionship
F.One strength of the human condition is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances
第 45 题 请选择(46)处的最佳答案
【M1】
Friendship【C5】______to be a unique form. of【C6】______bonding. Unlike marriage or the ties that【C7】______parents and children, it is not defined or regulated by【C8】______. Unlike other social roles that we are expected to【C9】______-- as citizens, employees, members of professional societies and【C10】______organizations-it has its own principle, which is to promote【C11】______of warmth, trust, love, and affection【C12】______two people.
The survey on friendship appeared in the March【C13】______of Psychology Today. The findings【C14】______that issues of trust and betrayal(背叛)are【C15】______to friendship. They also suggest that our readers do not【C16】______for friends only among those who are【C17】______like them ,but find many【C18】______differ in race, religion, and ethnic(种族的)background. Arguably the most important【C19】______that emerges from the data,【C20】______, is not something that we found--but what we did not.
【C1】
A.on
B.of
C.to
D.for
Friendship【60】to be a unique form. of【61】bonding. Unlike marriage or the ties that【62】parents and children, it is not defined or regulated by【63】. Unlike other social roles that we are expected to【64】as citizens, employees, members of professional societies and【65】organization—it has its own principle, which is to promote【66】of warmth, trust, love, and affection【67】two people.
The survey on friendship appeared in the March【68】of Psychology Today. The findings【69】that issues of trust and betrayal (背叛) are【70】to friendship. They also suggest that our readers do not【71】for friends only among those who are【72】like them, but find many【73】differ in race, religion, and ethnic (种族的) background. Arguably the most important【74】that emerges from the data,【75】, is not something that we found—but what we did not.
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A.on
B.of
C.to
D.for
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