高中英语语法填空:短文题型培优练习 Test 2

高中英语语法填空:短文题型培优练习 Test 2

It may not be the most romantic way to meet the love of your life — but it could be the best way to ensure they really are for life.

Finding Mr. or Mrs. Right online is more likely to lead to a happier and longer marriage than getting together 　61　 more traditional means, a study has found. A relationship started in cyberspace is 61 percent less likely to end in divorce or separation than those that began through friends or chance.

The success could be down to a 　62　 (high) motivation to find love among Internet daters and the efforts that websites put in to match partners, say researchers. Chicago University psychologists studied almost 20,000 people who 　63　 (marry) between 2005 and 2012 and asked them a series of questions about their happiness. Just over a third had met their spouse online, with around half of these 　64　 (use) Internet dating and the rest via chat rooms and social networking sites.

Those 　65　 were still married were happier if they had met online.

　66　 , relationships that began through work, in a bar or club or on a 　67　 date were 61 percent more likely to end — and those couples were among the least satisfied, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports .

Professor John Cacioppo, who led the study, said the sheer number of available potential partners online could be among the reasons for the results.

Previous research has shown that online daters are more likely to see each other again after a first meeting 　68　 they share more information about themselves online.

And 　69　 the relative anonymity of online dating does allow for prospective partners to lie about their attributes, studies suggest this mostly takes the form of white lies about weight and height.

The findings of the US study, commissioned by matchmaking company eHarmony, could also apply elsewhere, said Prof Cacioppo.

Britons are Europe's most prolific Internet daters.

More than 5.7 million people in the UK logged on to Internet 　70　 (date) sites in September 2012 — a 22 percent increase on the same month a year earlier, according to Internet market research company comScore.

The websites were most popular among the61 to 70 age group, but they are becoming increasingly attractive to the older generation.