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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.
A. disperse
B. disregard
C. abandon
D. forget
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.
(source: https://www.theatlantic.com/)
The word "dismiss" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.A. disperse
B. disregard
C. abandon
D. forget
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu tìm từ gần nghĩa
Giải thích:
Từ "dismiss" trong đoạn 3 có nghĩa gần nhất với .
A. phân tán
B. không cân nhắc, xem xét hoặc phớt lờ đi vì xem nó là không quan trọng, coi thường nó (hoàn toàn là do yếu tố chủ quan chủ tâm làm vậy)
C. từ bỏ, ruồng bỏ
D. quên, hoàn toàn không nghĩ gì đến ai/cái gì (đơn giản vì không thể nhớ được nó; mang tính khách quan vì không cố ý để quên)
Căn cứ vào ngữ cảnh:
To begin with, don't dismiss the humble acquaintance.
(Quan trọng nhất là đừng bỏ qua những người quen khiêm tốn.)
→ Dismiss (v): bỏ qua, lãng quên vì xem họ không quan trọng hoặc không đáng để cân nhắc, xem xét hay nghĩ về ~ disregard
*Note: To begin with = first: đầu tiên là; quan trọng nhất là
Giải thích:
Từ "dismiss" trong đoạn 3 có nghĩa gần nhất với .
A. phân tán
B. không cân nhắc, xem xét hoặc phớt lờ đi vì xem nó là không quan trọng, coi thường nó (hoàn toàn là do yếu tố chủ quan chủ tâm làm vậy)
C. từ bỏ, ruồng bỏ
D. quên, hoàn toàn không nghĩ gì đến ai/cái gì (đơn giản vì không thể nhớ được nó; mang tính khách quan vì không cố ý để quên)
Căn cứ vào ngữ cảnh:
To begin with, don't dismiss the humble acquaintance.
(Quan trọng nhất là đừng bỏ qua những người quen khiêm tốn.)
→ Dismiss (v): bỏ qua, lãng quên vì xem họ không quan trọng hoặc không đáng để cân nhắc, xem xét hay nghĩ về ~ disregard
*Note: To begin with = first: đầu tiên là; quan trọng nhất là
Đáp án B.