Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
A. Life is quiet and relaxed.
B. There isn’t much to do at night.
C. People there are living a simple and hard life.
D. There aren’t many theaters and restaurants there.
From Monday until Friday most people are busy working or studying, but in the evenings and on weekends they are free and enjoy themselves. Some watch TV or go to the movies (电影院); (36) take part in sports. It depends on individual (个人的) (37) . There are many different ways to (38) our spare time.Almost everyone has (39) kind of hobby (爱好). It may be something from collecting stamps (40) making model airplanes. Some hobbies are very (41) ; others don’t (42) at all. Some collections are (43) a lot of money; others are (44) only — for their owners.I know a man who has a (45) collection worth several thousand dollars. A short time ago he bought a rare (稀有的) fifty cent piece worth 250!He was very happy about his collection and thought the (46) was reasonable. (47) , my youngest brother (48) match boxes. He has almost 600 of them but I doubt if they are worth any money. (49) , for my brother they are extremely (特别地) (50) . Nothing makes him (51) than to find a new match box for his collection. That’s (52) a hobby means, I think. It is something we like to do in our spare time (53) for the fun of it. The value in dollars is not important, (54) the pleasure it gives us (55) 36().
A. the other
B. the others
C. other
D. others
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. Research on friendship has demonstrated that______.
A. every student has five or 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 lend to grow fond of people if we dislike them at first sight