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问题 Directions:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)  People are, on the whole, poor at considering background information when making individual decisions.A.t first glance this might seem like a strength that  1 the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by  2 factors. But Dr Uri Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big  3 was leading decision-makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with. 4 , he theorised that a judge  5 of appearing too soft  6 crime might be more likely to send someone to prison  7 he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day.  To  8 this idea, he turned to the university-admissions process. In theory, the  9 of an applicant should not depend on the few others  10 randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr Simonsohn suspected the truth was  11 .  He studied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews  12 by 31 admissions officers. The interviewers had  13 applicants on a scale of one to five. This scale  14 numerous factors into consideration. The scores were  15 used in conjunction with an applicant’s score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is  16 out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.  Dr Simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one  17 that, then the score for the next applicant would  18 by an average of 0.075 points. This might ound small, but to  19 the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been  20 .

选项 1.______ A. grants B.submits C.transmits D.delivers

答案A

解析本题测试考生根据上下文判断逻辑关系的能力。文章开始作者便提出:人们一般都不会考虑事情的背景。因此作者推断:这就像一种力量使人具有不受客观因素影响的能力。那么这种“力”(strength)和这种“能力”之间是什么关系呢?A项grant意为“给予,赐予”表示一种自上而下的逻辑关系,与文章内容相符,故为正确答案。submit意为“提交,上缴”,表示自下而上的关系,与文章逻辑正好相反。transmit意为“发射,传递”、deliver意为“递送,邮递”,均与文中内容不符。
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