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  3. Read the following text. Choose the best

Read the following text. Choose the best

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问题 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 sound small, but to 　19　the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been 　20　.1．______A. grantsB. submitsC. transmitsD. delivers
选项 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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