Question

You may have heard the saying, women are from Venus(金星) and men are from Mars (火星). It's a nice way of saying how men and women are quite different from each other in many ways.

These differences can be seen everywhere, even in how we communicate with friends. A recent study by the University of Oxford suggested that men and women keep relationships with friends far away in different ways.

Researchers questioned 30 students about their friendships just before they left for college. They followed up the questions nine months, and then 18 months later Robin Dunbar, who headed the research, told that how long friendships among women last depended on whether they made an effort to talk more to each other on the phone. Men, on the other hand, tended to (傾向于) do things differently. They went through months of not being with friends by planning meet-ups (見面) sometimes. This was the biggest difference between men and women.

Of course, gender (性別)isn't the only thing that influences how we stay in touch. The way we keep our friendships also depends on the preference(偏好) of each person, and it can take a while to find your own way of making your friendships work. One thing that is pretty clear though is that friends who make the effort to keep in touch, even if it's only through Wechat(微信)once a week, do tend to stay friends, no matter how far it is.

1.Did researchers question 30 high school students about their friendships?

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2.How did women keep their friendships according to the research?

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3.What's the passage mainly about?

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4.Do you think it's a good way for teenagers to keep friendships by planning meet-ups often? Why or why not?

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Answer 1