There’s no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior. An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits—as well as negative ones—spread through networks of friends via social communication. This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we unconsciously imitate the behavior we see every day.
24. Paragraph 5 shows that our imitation of behaviors _____________.
In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
38. It is suggested in Paragraph 3 that childless folks___________ .
[A] are constantly exposed to criticism
[B] are largely ignored by the media
[C] fail to fulfill their social responsibilities
[D] are less likely to be satisfied with their life
解析:很多同學(xué)選D,但是一定要注意,文中but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world句子用的是被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài),而D是主動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài),且看似合理,這是出題老師用來(lái)迷惑大家的啊。而A是被動(dòng)態(tài),且看似不太合理,但是和文中but之后的句子貌似相關(guān)?佳袥](méi)有標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案,只有最佳答案,所以相比較而言,只能選A。
(4)照抄原文不是答案
(5)含義肯定的不是答案,含義不肯定的是答案。
含義不肯定的往往包含以下詞語(yǔ):
could,may/might,usually,most(大多數(shù)),more or less,relatively,be likely to,whether or,not definitely,possible,suspicion(懷疑),dubious(可疑的),hesitate,
not necessarily,suggest,potential,trend,threat,unknown,