The Collectors

According to paragraph 1, what is the purpose for...

Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 44 to 50
The human desire for companionship may feel boundless, but research suggests that our social capital is finite. Social scientists have used a number of ingenious approaches to gauge the size of people's social networks; these have returned estimates ranging from about 250 to about 5,500 people. An undergraduate thesis from MIT focusing exclusively on Franklin D. Roosevelt, a friendly guy with an especially social job, suggested that he might have had as many as 22,500 acquaintances. Looking more specifically at friendship, a study using the exchange of Christmas cards as a proxy for closeness put the average person's friend group at about 121 people.
However vast our networks may be, our inner circle tends to be much smaller. The average American trusts only 10 to 20 people. Moreover, that number may be shrinking: From 1985 to 2004, the average number of confidants that people reported having decreased from three to two. This is both sad and consequential, because whoever has strong social relationships tends to live longer than those who don't.
So what should you do if your social life is lacking? Just follow the research. To begin with, don't dismiss the humble acquaintance. Even interacting with people with whom one has weak social ties has a meaningful influence on well-being. Beyond that, building deeper friendships may be largely a matter of putting in time.
A recent study out of the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend, an additional 40 hours to become a "real" friend, and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend. If that sounds like too much effort, reviving dormant social ties can be especially rewarding. Reconnected friends can quickly recapture much of the trust they previously built, while offering each other a dash of novelty drawn from whatever they've been up to in the meantime. And if all else fails, you could start randomly confiding in people you don't know that well in hopes of letting the tail wag the relational dog. The academic literature is clear: Longing for closeness and connection is pervasive. Which suggests that most of us are stumbling through the world pining for companionship that could be easily provided by the lonesome stumblers all around us.
According to paragraph 1, what is the purpose for mentioning an MIT thesis as an example?
A. To show that human and social bonds do not exist in isolation from each other.
B. To highlight a note-worthy case of ceiling limit for an individual's social output.
C. To illustrate that different human relationships involve different degrees of effort.
D. To explain the proneness to vulnerability of unnecessarily wide social network.
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu
Giải thích:
Theo đoạn 1, mục đích để đề cập đến một luận án MIT là một ví dụ là gì?
A.Để chỉ ra rằng sự gắn kết giữa con người và xã hội không tồn tại trong sự cô lập với nhau.
B.Để làm nổi bật một trường hợp đáng chú ý là giới hạn cho mối quan hệ xã hội của một cá nhân.
C.Để minh họa rằng các mối quan hệ khác nhau của con người liên quan đến mức độ nỗ lực khác nhau
D.Để giải thích mức độ dễ bị tổn thương của mạng xã hội rộng không cần thiết.
Căn cứ vào thông tin:
Social scientists have used a number of ingenious approaches to gauge the size of people's social networks; these have returned estimates ranging from about 250 to about 5,500 people. An undergraduate thesis from MIT focusing exclusively on Franklin D. Roosevelt, a friendly guy with an especially social job, suggested that he might have had as many as 22,500 acquaintances.
(Các nhà khoa học xã hội đã sử dụng một số cách tiếp cận khéo léo để đánh giá quy mô của con người mạng lưới xã hội, những người này đã có được ước tính mối quan hệ từ khoảng 250 đến khoảng 5.500 người. Một luận án đại học từ MIT tập trung hoàn toàn vào Franklin D. Roosevelt, một anh chàng thân thiện với một công việc xã hội đặc biệt, cho rằng anh ta có thể có tới 22.500 người quen.)
Giải thích: Franklin D. Roosevelt có một mạng lưới xã hội đáng chú ý và vượt xa hơn so với người bình thường
Đáp án B.
 

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