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阅读理解 If you have some free time to socialize, do you prefer to spend it with your best friend or partner, or with a larger group of people? A new study investigated what group size people actually look for and encounter in everyday life. The scientists asked more than 4, 000 people from the US and the Netherlands to report the size of their social groups for a wide variety of activities. For eight different activities ( going to a bar, chatting at work, chatting off work, having dinner, going on a holiday, going to a movie theatre, working on a project, playing sports) , people reported a group size of two more often than they reported larger group sizes. Interestingly, for about half of these activities, women reported a group size of two significantly more often than men did, suggesting that women prefer a social group size of two even more than men do. The researchers also used a research technique called real-time experience-sampling(经验取样) in the second part of the study. 274 volunteers were asked seven times a day to report the last social situation they had experienced. The results were clear. Two was the most common group size with 52. 6 percent. Thus, this part of the study also suggested that two is the most common group size in social interactions. So why do people prefer spending their time with one other person compared to spending their time with larger groups? Researchers explained that in general, social interactions with just one other person allow for more control of the situation, especially when it comes to reciprocity(互助). When we interact with just one other person, one's choices directly affect the other person and only that person. Thus, it is easy to distinguish whether there is mutual (双向的) cooperation ( for example, both people take turns paying for dinner) or whether someone acts selfishly ( for example, one person never pays the bill). In larger groups, the situation gets much more complicated. （1） What is the new study mainly about? A . What social group size people prefer. B . Whom people like to spend time with. C . Which activities people choose to kill time. D . How people make friends in social activities. （2） Why did researchers ask the volunteers seven times a day? A . To collect the latest social information. B . To make their activities last longer. C . To know the variety of their activities. D . To prove the result of the former study. （3） What drives many people to interact with only one other person? A . The closer relationship. B . The limited choices. C . The sense of control. D . The selfish intention. （4） In which section of a website can you read this text? A . Advanced technology. B . Social psychology. C . Entertainment. D . Health. 答案： A A C B

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