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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(闲言碎语) 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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7.everyone

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【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文讲述的是最近的一个研究，发现大多数的女性喜欢闲言碎语。这个研究是3,000名年龄在18到65岁的女性参加的。很多人说出秘密是为了释放压力，而且大部分人在说出秘密后会感到后悔。

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6.国的女士一周会听到三条闲言碎语，他们至少会再告诉给另外一个人。piece 一条，一块。空前有three，故这里用复数形式。

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