05-冲刺2024年中考英语首字母填空考前押题预测（上海专用）

冲刺2024年中考英语首字母填空临考原创押题（上海专用） 05 （一） Scientists found that people who have fewer friends in real life are happier than those with far more if many of theirs were online. Social media, the researchers said, has e____1____ younger people to have larger but more impersonal networks of "friends". But instead of trying to get more friends, they added, a better cure for loneliness might be spending time with those you're closest to. Researchers from the University of Leeds, UK, studied data from two online surveys of n____2____ 1,500 people. Those who participated in the survey gave details about their ages, social interactions, and how satisfied they were with their social lives. They included details of how often and how they interacted with family or neighbors, and whether they included people who p____3____ services for them in their networks. The researchers found that those who had a small number of close friends generally were happier than those who had a large number of superficial(关系浅的) friends. "Loneliness has l____4____ to do with the number of friends you have, and more to do with how you feel about your friends," said Dr. Bruine de Bruin, one of the researchers. "It's often the younger adults who a____5____ having negative perceptions(看法) of their friends. Loneliness happens in people of all ages," she added. "If you feel lonely, it may be more helpful to make a positive connection with a friend than to try and find new people to meet," she also said. In her study Dr. Bruine de Bruin found that older people had smaller social circles than young people, but the people in these circles were closer to them. Younger people, on the other hand, had bigger circles that were made up of "peripheral(外围的) others" —people who are not t____6____ friends, but just people they know. These so-called friends didn't influence the younger people's happiness. The results of the study show that the stereotypes(偏见) society has about old people being sad and lonely might not be ri