Text 1"The love of money",St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy,"is the root of all evil.""All"may be putting it a bit strongly,but dozens of psychological studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experiment are

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Text 1"The love of money",St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy,"is the root of all evil.""All"may be putting it a bit strongly,but dozens of psychological studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experiment are more likely to lie,cheat and steal during the course of that experiment.Another well-known aphorism,ascribed to Benjamin Franklin,is"time is money".If true,that suggests a syllogism:that the love of time is a root of evil,too.But a paperjust published in Psychological Science by Francesca Gino of Harvard and Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania suggests precisely the opposite.Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner asked a group of volunteers to do a scries of what appeared to be aptitude tests.As is ofien the case in such experiments,though,what the voiunteers were told.and what the truth was,were rather different things.In the first test they were asked to make,within three minutes,as many coherent sentences as they could out of a set ofwords they had been presented with.What they were not told was that each of them had been assigned to one of three groups.Some volunteers'word sets were seeded with ones associated with money,such as"dollars","financing"and"spend".Some were seeded with words associated with time（eg,"clock",/'hours","moment"）.And some were seeded with neither.Thus unknowingly primed,the volunteers were ready for the second test.This was mathematical.They were given a sheet of paper with 20 matrices which each contained 12 numbers.two of which added up to ten（for example,3.81 and 6.19）.They had to write down,on a separate answer sheet,how many of these pairs they could manage to find in five minutes.They were also given a packet ofmoney and told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered.This led Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner to suspect that self-reflection played a part in controlling uncthical behaviour during the test.They therefore conducted a third test in which,for half the volunteers,there was a mirror in the cubicle they were sitting in when doing the experiment.Volunteers primed to think about money cheated 39%of the time when a mirror was present but 67%when it was not.Those primed to think about time cheated 32%of the time in the presence of the mirror and 36%in its absence-results that are statistically indistinguishable.Finally,a fourth experiment asked primed volunteers to fill in a questionnaire before tackling the matrix.In among"filler"questions intended to disguise what was happening this asked them to rate how they felt about self-reflective statements like,"Right now,1 am thinking about who I am as a person."As in the previous tests,those primed with money words cheated more ofien than those primed with neutral words and far more ofien than those primed with time words.But whether someone cheated was also related to how strongly he felt about the self-reflective statements presented to him in the questionnaire.It seems,then,that thinking about time has the opposite effect on people from thinking about money.It makes them more honest than normal,rather than less so.Moreover,the more reflective they are,the more honest they become.There must be an aphorism in that.
What can we infer from the tests?

A.The subjects have been told their assignment
B.Volunteers who had been primed with money ideas were more likely to cheat others.
C.12%volunteers had been primed with time-related words.
D.33%subjects had been primed with money-related words.

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第1题：

While traveling abroad(在国外), Mr. Jackson Frank ran short of money. So he wrote to his brother, asking for $500. "Send the money by telegram," he wrote, "to the Fisher Bank in P…" After a week he began calling at the Fisher Bank. He showed his passport(护照). "Nothing has come for you," he was told. This went on for two weeks, and Mr. Frank got very worried. He sent a telegram to his brother, asking where the money was. There was no reply, and no money arrived for him.

In the fourth week Mr. Frank was arrested for failing to pay hotel bill. His passport was taken from him. He tried to explain the problem, but no one believed him. He was sent to prison for sixty days. When he came out, he went immediately to the Fisher Bank. The Clerk(职员)he spoke to was a new man. "Have you received $500 for me?" he asked, "My name is Jackson Frank." The clerk checked his books. "Yes, Mr. Jackson, it's here. It came by telegram - let me see - oh, more than two months ago.

"We wondered where you were." He showed Mr. Frank the order. The order(汇单)read: "Pay Mr. Frank Jackson the sum of $500 …"

"But my name is Jackson Frank, not Frank Jackson."

"Oh, that's all right, sir. It was in our books under the letter 'J', but it's your money."

The clerk laughed. "A human mistake, sir! We're all human beings, aren't we? And so we all make mistakes. A family name like Frank sounds strange to me."

Mr frank was silent. He really wanted to hit somebody. At last he said, "A human mistake - is that what you call it? I think some humans need kicking."

1. Jackson didn't just go to his brother and get some money because _____.

A. he was afraid to see his brother

B. he was in prison and was not allowed to go anywhere

C. he was traveling in a foreign country and was far from his brother

D. he knew that his brother had no money

2. A week after he had written to his brother, Jackson began _____.

A. telephoning the bank

B. visiting the bank

C. shouting at the clerks of the bank

D. explaining his problem to the clerks of the bank

3. Jackson was arrested and sent to prison because _____.

A. his brother hadn't sent him any money and he couldn't pay his hotel bill

B. he had spent almost all his money and couldn't pay his hotel bill

C. he had lost all his money and couldn't pay his hotel bill

D. his brother hadn't sent him as much money as he asked for and he couldn't pay his hotel bill

4. Which of the following statements is true? _____

A. The money did not reach the Fisher Bank.

B. The money reached the wrong bank.

C. The money reached the bank after he was arrested.

D. The money reached the bank before he was arrested.

5. The clerks put his name under the wrong letter _____.

A. through carelessness

B. because they were human beings

C. because he had a strange name

D. by pronouncing his name incorrectly

参考答案： CBBDA

第2题：

He gave up his favorite job()for his family than for money.

A.rather

B.much

C.all D.more

参考答案：D

第3题：

Tom saves his money, _____John spends all he gets.

A.while

B.or

C.nor

D.as

参考答案：A

第4题：

During an annual FCC inspection ______．

A.All required documents and publications may have to be produced

B.Licensed GMDSS radio operators may be required to demonstrate equipment competencies

C.All required equipment must be fully operational

D.All of the above

正确答案：D

第5题：

One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that_________．

A． the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline

B． people surveyed are all old

C． people taking part in this test came from all over the world

D． women live longer than men

正确答案：A
A[解析]由第四段的“Those results could be improper because the studies in-volved older people，and women Iive longer than men.”可以推出A项正确。

第6题：

Irish history and ______ inspired all of the poems he wrote in the second half of his life.

A. level

B. legality

C. leisure

D. legend

参考答案：B

第7题：

During an AIX installation, which of the following actions will occur once the Complete Overwrite option is selected?()

A.All new disks in the system will be formatted

B.Only the contents of the root volume group destination disks will be destroyed

C.All file systems, including /(root), /tmp, /usr, and /var, but no usr data in the root volume group, will be destroyed

D.The contents of all disks on the system, even if they are not shown as the destination root volume group disks, will be destroyed

参考答案：B

第8题：

By his genius he()all these old stories()masterpieces of his life.

A、put; into

B、turned; into

C、wrote; as

D、set; as

参考答案：B

第9题：

A seaman may have all or part of his wages deposited by allotment to a bank or savings institution. Which of the following is NOT a requirement for this type of allotment?

A.The account must be either a checking or savings account

B.The institution must be insured by the FSLIC or FDIC

C.The account must be opened by the seaman and maintained in the seaman's name

D.All of the above are requirements

正确答案：A

第10题：

The love of money is the root of all evil.

A:result
B:cause
C:end
D:force

答案：B

解析：

本句意思：爱钱是罪恶的根源。root意为“根源”，与cause（原因）意思相近。result结果； end终点；force力量。

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