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A four-year study by sociologists at, The University of Manchester has found that women are much likely than men to make deep and lasting friendships.(1)____ The investigation into social networks by the University's Research Centre for Socio-Cultural Change found that men are more fickle and calculating about who they should be friends.(2)____ Women, on the other hand, stand by their friends through thick and thin. Adding to the bad news for male prestige,the study confirms the stereotype which men are likely to base their friendship on social drinking.(3)____
Of the 10,OOO individuals studying who took part in the 1992 to 2002 British Household Panel Surveys, women are much more likely to stay with the same friends.(4)____ Single people, elder people and white collar workers are also good at paring up.(5)____ Middle class people are more likely to cast their net of friendship far more wider, or the working class tend to stick to their own kind.(6)____(7)____
Dr Gindo Tampubolon said the findings to female friendship were double significant because the data suggest we are much more likely to socialize with people from our own gender-75 per cent of best friands were with the same sex.(8)____(9)____ Dr Tampubolon, who is based at the School of Social Sciences, said: " Friendship between women seems to be fundamentally similar to friendship between men."(10)____

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文章大意
本文讨论的是男女对待友谊的不同态度。曼彻斯特大学的社会学家在历经四年的研究中发现，女性之间的友 谊更加深刻和持久，而男性在择友时则更善变、更精明，这一研究证实了人们对男性抱有的一种成见，即男性往往在社交场合中以酒论朋友。此外，调查发现中产阶级朋友关系网比较广，而工薪阶层倾向于和自己同一层次的人交朋友。女性更倾向于和同性交朋友，75%的好朋友都是女性。可见，男女在择友的观念上有着根本的区别。
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1．∧likely→more或much→more词汇错误。此句中出现了than，故likely应该用比较级，需在前面加上more．much可以用来修饰比较级，表示程度，此处much more表示“更加”，这题也可以直接将much改成more。
2．friends∧→with词汇错误。be friends with sb．是固定搭配，表示“和某人成为朋友”，故应加上with，此句的意思是“在择友方面，男性比女性更加易变和精明。”
3．which→that语法错误。此处是同位语从句，解释stereotype的内容，which不能引导同位语从句，故应该改为从属连词that．同位语从句中的that通常不能省略。
4．studying→studied语法错误。此处分词作后置定语修饰individuals，二者之间是被动关系，故应该用过去分词studied．相当于从句who were studied，意为“被调查研究的1万个人”。
5．elder→older/elderly词汇错误。elder 一般指“（两个人中）年长的”，无比较级，若作名词“长者，前辈”则通常用复数形式，且后不接people，elderly作形容词，指上了年纪的人，older是old的比较级，泛指年纪较大的人，故此处应该用elderly或older，以符合文意。
6．(far) more→more词汇错误。wide是单音节词，比较级为wider．前面不需要加more。
7．or→whereas/while语篇错误。由上下文的语义判断，句间的逻辑关系应为对比关系，前句说到中产阶层的人更倾向有广泛的朋友关系网，后句则说工薪阶层的人倾向于和自己同一层次的人交朋友，前后形成对照，故此处应改为whereas或while。
8．to→on词汇错误。此处表示“关于女性之间的友谊的研究发现”，findings后面通常用介词on，应把to改为on。
9．double→doubly语法错误。double作形容词，表示“双倍的，双重的”，此处应该用副词来修饰形容词significant，故应改为doubly。
10．similar→different语篇错误。短文开头第一段就已经表明女性之间的友谊关系更深入更持久，而男性在交朋友方面则更易变和精明，由此可知二者有着 明显的区别，故应该把similar改为different。