QUESTION 15
Read the paragraph below. Then carefully consider the questions that follow and choose the best response.
Many adult Americans, particularly males, do not have especially close friends. This is unfortunate for a number of reasons. The lack of close friends
places an unrealistic burden on a person's spouse. He or she is expected to provide all the other's emotional needs. In addition, without close friends,
adults become emotionally limited. They lose the ability to express themselves freely to other people. The Bangwa tribe of Western Africa, by contrast,
value friendship so highly that parents assign each of their children a "best friend" in infancy, Friends spend a great deal of time together throughout their
lives. The worst part of being old, complained one elderly Bangwa man, was that he had no best friend left to gossip with.
The primary purpose of this paragraph is to
OA present facts about adult friendship.
OB. argue that adult friendship is valuable.
OC. entertain with amusing customs of other cultures.
OD. all of the above
