文档介绍：2013 年考研英语(一)试题及参考答案
Section I Use of English
Directionononons:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered
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People are, on the whole, poor at considering background information when
making individual decisions. At 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 standardized 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 points or more higher than that of the one 17 that, then the
score for the next applicant would 18 by an average of points. This might
sound small, but to 19 the effects of such a decrease a candidate could need 30 more
GMAT points than would otherwise have been 20 .
1.[A]grants [B]submits [C]transmits [D]delivers
2.[A]minor [B]objective [C]crucial [D] external