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Usually, joy and happiness     1     (understand) to be the same thing. In fact, they’re very different. Joy is an emotion that occurs within us when we develop an appreciation or thankfulness for the contents of life, such as nature,     2     (free), relationships with people, or through having faith in something     3     (large) than ourselves. Happiness is an emotion that is aroused in us when we buy a new car or get a promotion at work. It depends on our circumstances satisfying our desires.

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Today, there are groups of native people around the world that still live a traditional lifestyle. Some live in remote parts of South America,     1     way of life is in danger of disappearing. The Korubo are native people who live in the Amazon rainforest. They make their own tools, grow their own crops, and hunt and fish. Their main weapons are clubs and poison-tipped arrows, used     2     both hunting and protecting their territory against     3    (outsider).

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Chinese lovebirds flood to register marriages on Tuesday, February 22, 2022,     1     translates into a very unique number “20220222” that many felt is unique and memorable. Also     2    Chinese, the number “2” sounds like “love” . Many Chinese in Zhengzhou     3     (report) to have come to the local marriage registration center to line up a day earlier. Some even hired other people     4     (stand) in line for them.

A man said he     5     (come) on Monday at 5 pm only to see that there were already many people there.     6     total of 4, 718 couples reserved for marriage registration on that day. Beijing authority also said that they would prolong (延长) service time and would not get off work until     7     (finish) registration for these couples.

Marriage     8     (reserve) in Chengdu in Southwest China’s Sichuan province has also been fully booked. In response, local marriage registration     9     (center) prolonged their service time on that day so that people can come    10     (direct) to the site to register even though they do not have reservation.

【推荐3】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Understanding the Closeness-Communication Bias（偏见）

Most of us assume that we communicate better with our friends and loved ones than we do with strangers. However, it is often the case that the closer we are to     1    , the less likely we are to listen carefully to them. This phenomenon is called closeness-communication bias, and it has been known to affect personal relationships.

The reason     2     many people unconsciously “tune out” their family members or close friends is that they think they already know what the other person       3     (say). It’s similar to the way in which you might not notice signs, landmarks, or scenery on a path you have travelled down numerous times.

Researchers have repeatedly demonstrated closeness-communication bias in experiments. In one such study, subjects were paired up in a room with friends or spouses,     4     (follow) by being paired up with complete strangers. Researchers then asked the subjects to interpret     5     their friends and spouses were saying to them. In the majority of cases,     6     most subjects assumed they would better understand those they were close to, they actually understood them no better than strangers. In some cases, they understood their close friends and spouses even less.

Another study showed that people are more likely to share their most worrisome troubles with people they were     7     (close) to rather than with their spouses or close friends. By sharing secrets with strangers, people are able to avoid       8     (judge) and prevent creating unnecessary conflict within their close relationships.

Unfortunately, the closeness-communication bias is a reality that most people live     9     whether they know it or not. Not only     10     this prevent people from listening to those they love, but it also means their loved ones aren't listening to them, either.