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Usually, most women cannot keep a secret for longer than 47 hours, a new study shows. The 1. finds that women like to tell others gossip(閑言碎語) as soon as they hear it. They will tell 2. least one other person in 47 hours and 15 minutes. They may tell their boyfriend, husband, best friend or mother the 3. at first.

3,000 women age 4. 18 and 65 took part in this study. The study found that four out of ten said that they couldn’t keep a secret. It also found that wine 5. gave them a help hand to speak out secrets.

Usually English ladies heard three 6. of gossip a week, and they would tell at least one person. Six in ten said they would tell 7. who had nothing to do with the secret, so the person about the secret couldn’t 8. . Three in ten said they had ideas to speak out the secret. Nearly half(45%) of them spoke out the secrets just for losing their 9. . However, two thirds of them said that they felt sorry 10. they passed on secrets. Three quarters of them said they could keep quiet about a secret. But over a quarter(27%) said they always forgot what they heard the following day.

 

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【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文講述的是最近的一個研究，發現大多數的女性喜歡閑言碎語。這個研究是3,000名年齡在18到65歲的女性參加的。很多人說出秘密是為了釋放壓力，而且大部分人在說出秘密后會感到后悔。

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