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...
