北京成人英语三级考试真题Passage 3 Question 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: Regret is as common an emotion as love or fear,and it can be nearly as powerful. So,in a new paper,two researchers set about trying to find out what the typical American regrets most. In telephone surveys , Neal Rose , a psychologist and professor of marketing at the School of Management at Northwestern Universtiy , and Mike Morrison , a doctoral candidate in psychology at University of Illinois , asked 370 Americans , aged 19 to 103 , to talk about their most notable regret .Participants were asked what the regret was , when it happened , whether it was a result of something they did or didn‘t do,and whether it was something that could still be fixed. The most commonly mentioned regret involved romance (浪漫的事 )(18%)——lost loves or unfulfilled relationships. Family regrets came in second (16%),whit people still feeling badly about being unkind to their brothers or sisters in childhood. Other frequently reported regrets involved career (13%) ,education (12%),money(10%) and parenting(9%)。 Rose and Morrison‘s study ,which is to be published in social psychological and personality science,is significant in that it surveyed a wide range of the American public,including people of all ages and socio-economic and educational backgrounds. Previous studies on regret have focused largely on college students , who predictably tend to have education-focused regrets , like wishing they had studied harder or a different major. The new survey shows that in the larger population,a person‘s major. The new survey shows that in the larger population,a person‘s “life circumstances—accomplishments , shor...