Must be TrueDiff: easy

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Passage Summary: To keep any relationship going for a long time, you need trust and respect. If it's a personal relationship like a friendship, you also need to actually like each other.

Reasoning: Trust requires mutual respect and is necessary for any long-lasting relationship; additionally, personal relationships require natural affinity to endure.

Analysis: Since this is a 'Must be True' question, we must treat the premises as absolute rules and look for a valid deduction. We know that trust is a requirement for all long-lasting relationships and that trust itself requires mutual respect. Therefore, we can conclude that mutual respect is a requirement for any long-lasting relationship. Look for an answer choice that stays within these logical bounds without introducing new, unstated requirements.

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If the statements above are true, then which one of the following must also be true?

Correct Answer
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A follows directly: a friendship (a personal relationship) with only trust and mutual respect is missing affinity, which is required for endurance; thus it will not be long‑lasting.
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