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.
Love stories often include people finding partners who seem to have traits that they lack, like a good girl falling for a bad boy. In this way, they appear to complement one another. For example, one spouse might be outgoing and funny while the other is shy and serious. It's easy to see how both partners could view the other as ideal – one partner's strengths balancing out the other partner's weaknesses.
The question is whether people actually seek out complementary partners or if that just happens in the movies…There is essentially no research evidence that differences in personality, interests, education, politics, upbringing, religion or other traits lead to greater attraction. For example, in one study researchers found that college students preferred descriptions of mates whose written bios were similar to themselves or their ideal self over those described as complementing themselves.
Despite the overwhelming evidence, why does the myth of heterogamy endure? There's evidence that small differences between spouses can become larger over time. In their self-help book "Reconcilable Differences," psychologists Andrew Christensen, Brian Doss and Neil Jacobson describe how partners move into roles that are complementary over time. For example, if one member of a couple is slightly more humorous than the other, the couple may settle into a pattern in which the slightly-more-funny spouse claims the role of "the funny one" while the slightly-less-funny spouse slots into the role of "the serious one."
In the end, people's attraction to differences is vastly outweighed by our attraction to similarities. People persist in thinking opposites attract – when in reality, relatively similar partners just become a bit more complementary as time goes by.
(Source: https://theconversation.com/)
Which best serves as the title for the passage?
A. The real reason that opposites attract.
B. A little tension can sometimes be a good thing.
C. Why are we so sure opposites attract?
D. Filling in my weak spots with your strengths.
Love stories often include people finding partners who seem to have traits that they lack, like a good girl falling for a bad boy. In this way, they appear to complement one another. For example, one spouse might be outgoing and funny while the other is shy and serious. It's easy to see how both partners could view the other as ideal – one partner's strengths balancing out the other partner's weaknesses.
The question is whether people actually seek out complementary partners or if that just happens in the movies…There is essentially no research evidence that differences in personality, interests, education, politics, upbringing, religion or other traits lead to greater attraction. For example, in one study researchers found that college students preferred descriptions of mates whose written bios were similar to themselves or their ideal self over those described as complementing themselves.
Despite the overwhelming evidence, why does the myth of heterogamy endure? There's evidence that small differences between spouses can become larger over time. In their self-help book "Reconcilable Differences," psychologists Andrew Christensen, Brian Doss and Neil Jacobson describe how partners move into roles that are complementary over time. For example, if one member of a couple is slightly more humorous than the other, the couple may settle into a pattern in which the slightly-more-funny spouse claims the role of "the funny one" while the slightly-less-funny spouse slots into the role of "the serious one."
In the end, people's attraction to differences is vastly outweighed by our attraction to similarities. People persist in thinking opposites attract – when in reality, relatively similar partners just become a bit more complementary as time goes by.
(Source: https://theconversation.com/)
Which best serves as the title for the passage?
A. The real reason that opposites attract.
B. A little tension can sometimes be a good thing.
C. Why are we so sure opposites attract?
D. Filling in my weak spots with your strengths.
Câu nào sau đây thích hợp nhất làm tiêu đề cho đoạn văn?
A. Lý do thực sự của việc nam châm trái cực thì hút nhau
B. Một chút căng thẳng đôi khi có thể là một điều tốt
C. Tại sao chúng ta chắc chắn về việc nam châm trái cực thì hút nhau?
D. Khắc phục điểm yếu của tôi bằng điểm mạnh của bạn
*Opposites attract: Nam châm trái cực thì hút nhau, chỉ 2 người có tính cách trái ngược nhau nhưng lại thu hút nhau.
Căn cứ vào thông tin đoạn cuối:
In the end, people's attraction to differences is vastly outweighed by our attraction to similarities.
(Cuối cùng, sự thu hút của mọi người đối với sự khác biệt vượt xa sự thu hút của chúng ta đối với sự tương đồng.)
=> Từ thông tin kết luận ở đoạn cuối và nội dung của bài đọc, ta suy ra đoạn văn đang nói về những lý do tại sao con người lại tin vào "việc nam châm trái cực thì hút nhau".
A. Lý do thực sự của việc nam châm trái cực thì hút nhau
B. Một chút căng thẳng đôi khi có thể là một điều tốt
C. Tại sao chúng ta chắc chắn về việc nam châm trái cực thì hút nhau?
D. Khắc phục điểm yếu của tôi bằng điểm mạnh của bạn
*Opposites attract: Nam châm trái cực thì hút nhau, chỉ 2 người có tính cách trái ngược nhau nhưng lại thu hút nhau.
Căn cứ vào thông tin đoạn cuối:
In the end, people's attraction to differences is vastly outweighed by our attraction to similarities.
(Cuối cùng, sự thu hút của mọi người đối với sự khác biệt vượt xa sự thu hút của chúng ta đối với sự tương đồng.)
=> Từ thông tin kết luận ở đoạn cuối và nội dung của bài đọc, ta suy ra đoạn văn đang nói về những lý do tại sao con người lại tin vào "việc nam châm trái cực thì hút nhau".
Đáp án C.