课时作业(四) Friends forever（Word练习）-2023高考英语一轮复习【优化指导】高中总复习·第1轮（外研版 新教材 新高考）

课时作业(四) UNIT 4　Friends forever 一、阅读理解 (2022·河北邯郸高三上开学考试)Researchers found that those with strong, close bonds with their friends at age 15 were more likely to be healthy and happy later. Importantly, popularity—defined as lots of people liking you generally, but not closely—wasn't found to have the same benefit as close friends. “Close friendship strength in mid­adolescence predicted relative increases in self­worth and decreases in anxiety and depressive symptoms by early adulthood，” according to the authors of the study. Popularity actually had the opposite—negative—effect. The University of Virginia researchers who ran the study followed the 169 subjects every year for a decade, which means that their data are pretty strong. The scientists weren't relying on recollections(回忆) of the types of relationships people had years later; they got data in real time from their subjects as they grew and matured. Each year, the subjects spoke to the researchers about their friends—who their besties(好朋友) were and what their relationships were like with other friends. Through interviews and assessments, they were asked about “anxiety, social acceptance, self­worth and symptoms of depression; teens' close friends also reported on their friendships and were interviewed，” according to the release. Then the researchers analyzed the 10 years of data to understand how people handle stress over time. Those who were merely popular did worse on several measures of mental health compared to people with strong high school friendships. The study shows that being well­liked by a large group of people cannot take the place of forming deep, supportive friendships. Because these experiences stay with us, over and above what happens later. As technology makes it increasingly easy to build a social network of ordinary friends, focusing time and attention on cultivating close connections with a few individuals should be a priority. [语篇解读]本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了研究人员通过十年的跟踪发现，对青少年来说高中时期交的亲密朋友比普通朋友对他们未来的