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  3. Ask a left-wing Briton what they believe about the safety of nuclear power,

Ask a left-wing Briton what they believe about the safety of nuclear power,

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问题     Ask a left-wing Briton what they believe about the safety of nuclear power, and you can guess their answer. Ask a right-wing American about the risks posed by climate change, and you can also make a【C1】______ guess than if you didn’t know their political affiliation. Issues like these feel like they should be【C2】______ by science, not our political tribes, but sadly, that’s not what happens.
    Psychology has long shown that education and intelligence won’t stop your politics from【C3】______ your broader worldview, even if those beliefs do not match the hard evidence. Instead, your ability to weigh up the facts may depend on a less well-recognised trait—【C4】______ .
    There is now a mountain of【C5】______ to show that politics doesn’t just help predict people’s views on some scientific issues; it also affects how they interpret new information. This is why it is a【C6】______ to think that you can somehow "correct" people’s views on an issue by giving them more facts, since study after study has shown that people have a tendency to【C7】______ reject facts that don’t fit with their existing views.
    But smarter people shouldn’t be susceptible to prejudice swaying their opinions, right? Wrong. Other research shows that people with the most education, highest mathematical abilities, and the strongest tendencies to be reflective about their beliefs are the most【C8】______ to resist information which should contradict their prejudices. This undermines the simplistic assumption that prejudices are the result of too much gut instinct and not enough deep thought. Rather, people who have the【C9】______ for deeper thought about an issue can use those cognitive powers to justify what they already believe and find reasons to dismiss apparently【C10】______ evidence.
A) better I) flexibility
B) competitively J) identical
C) contrary K) informed
D) curiosity L) likely
E) evidence M) mistake
F) explained N) selectively
G) facility O) shaping H) fact [br] 【C1】
选项
答案 A
解析 空格前面是不定冠词a，后面是名词guess，因此需要填入形容词来修饰guess，通过分析句子结构可知，空格之后为than引导的比较状语从句，因此空格处需要填入形容词的比较级。本句前半部分提及询问一位美国右翼人士有关气候变化带来的危害，后半部分比较了了解他们政治立场前后所猜的答案。而上一句中指出“如果你问一位英国左翼人士对核能安全的想法，你一定能够猜到他的答案”。由此可知，在了解政治立场的情况下猜出的答案一定更准确，此处应选择与准确意义相近的形容词，所以A)better为答案。
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